Arnold Eric Bender (1918-1999) was a British expert in nutrition and food toxicology.[1]

Bender worked as a Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics at Queen Elizabeth College. He was the president of the International Union of Food Science and Technology.[1]

Among his notable works was The Facts of Food (1975), which was positively reviewed in the New Scientist as a "breathless tour of nutrition... unlikely to be matched for accuracy or density of information."[2] He was also the author of the skeptical book Health or Hoax? (1986) which criticized the claims of alternative medicine and refuted many of the myths about "healthy eating".[3][4]

Publications

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  • Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology (1960)
  • Dietetic Foods (1968)
  • Nutrition and Dietetic Foods (1973)
  • The Facts of Food (1975)
  • Food Processing and Nutrition (1978)
  • Health The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to Nutrition and Calories (1987)
  • Health or Hoax?: The Truth About Health Foods and Diets (Prometheus Books, 1986)
  • Dictionary of Food and Nutrition (1995)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Obituaries: Professor Arnold Bender". The Independent.
  2. ^ Cowhig, Jerry. (1976). The Facts of Food. New Scientist. 29 January. p. 244
  3. ^ Book Reviews: Health or Hoax? by Arnold E. Bender. Perspectives in Public Health. (1985). Volume 105 no. 6: 226.
  4. ^ Book Reviews. International Journal of Food Science & Technology. (1986). Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 239–252.