Bücher von Catherine Price

Glück und Lebensfreude scheinen für viele Menschen das wichtigste Ziel im Leben zu sein. Seltsam, dass wir uns dennoch so wenig darum kümmern. So war es auch bei Catherine Price. Als junge Mutter fand sie sich in einem Alltag wieder, der fast nur noch aus Pflichterfüllung bestand. Sie beschloss, sich auf die Suche nach der Freude zu machen. Und als sie sah, wie spärlich die Forschung zu Spaß und Freude ist, startete sie selbst eine Umfrage, an der sich mehr als 1.500 Menschen aus aller Welt beteiligten.Auf Grundlage dieser Recherche beantwortet sie Fragen wie: Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Freude und Glücklichsein, Zerstreuung, Spaß und Vergnügen? Und wie wirken eigentlich Dopamin und Serotonin? Am Ende entdeckt sie sogar eine Spaßformel, die hilft, sich wieder lebendig zu fühlen.»Dem Ernst des Lebens sollte man mit Spaß begegnen. Catherine Price hat die perfekte Anleitung zum vergnügten Widerstand geschrieben.« MATZE HIELSCHER

"[An] absorbing and meticulously researched history of the beginnings and causes of our obsession with vitamins and nutrition." -The New York Times Most of us know nothing about vitamins. What's more, what we think we know is harming both our personal nutrition and our national health. By focusing on vitamins at the expense of everything else, we've become blind to the bigger picture: despite our belief that vitamins are an absolute good-and the more of them, the better-vitamins are actually small and surprisingly mysterious pieces of a much larger nutritional puzzle. In Vitamania, award-winning journalist Catherine Price offers a lucid and lively journey through our cherished yet misguided beliefs about vitamins, and reveals a straightforward, blessedly anxiety-free path to enjoyable eating and good health. When vitamins were discovered a mere century ago, they changed the destiny of the human species by preventing and curing many terrifying diseases. Yet it wasn't long before vitamins spread from labs of scientists into the realm of food marketers and began to take on a life of their own. The era of "vitamania," as one 1940s journalist called it, had begun. Though we've gained much from our embrace of vitamins, what we've lost is a crucial sense of perspective. By buying into a century of hype and advertising, we have accepted the false idea that particular dietary chemicals can be used as shortcuts to health-whether they be antioxidants or omega-3s or, yes, vitamins. And it's our vitamin-inspired desire for effortless shortcuts that created today's dietary supplement industry, a veritable Wild West of overpromising "miracle" substances that can be legally sold without any proof that they are effective or safe. Price's travels to vitamin manufacturers and food laboratories and military testing kitchens-along with her deep dive into the history of nutritional science- provide a witty and dynamic narrative arc that binds Vitamania together. The result is a page-turning exploration of the history, science, hype, and future of nutrition. And her ultimate message is both inspiring and straightforward: given all that we don't know about vitamins and nutrition, the best way to decide what to eat is to stop obsessing and simply embrace this uncertainty head-on. Praise for Vitamania: "Measured, funny, and fascinating. The only thing that Catherine Price is selling here is good reporting, engaging storytelling, and more than you thought you could possibly learn about vitamins. If you need vitamins to survive (you do), you should read this book." -Scientific American

From the Grover Cleveland Service Area to the Beijing Museum of Tap Water to Euro Disney, this title brings you some of the unforgettable tales of the most ill-conceived museums, worst theme parks, and the grossest Superfund sites.