Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- About the Editors -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction: Panic Nation -- Prologue: Whose Opinion Can We Trust? -- PART ONE: FOOD SCARES -- Chapter One: Obesity -- Chapter Two: Junk Food -- Chapter Three: Organic Food -- Chapter Four: The Great Cholesterol Myth -- Chapter Five: Sugar -- Chapter Six: Salt -- Chapter Seven: Water -- Chapter Eight: Tea, Coffee and Caffeine -- Chapter Nine: Alcohol -- Chapter Ten: Pesticides in Food -- Chapter Eleven: Food Additives: How Safe, How Valuable? -- PART TWO: DIETS -- Chapter Twelve: Healthy Eating -- Chapter Thirteen: The Epidemic of Diet Books -- Chapter Fourteen: Diet and Disease -- Chapter Fifteen: School Dinners -- Chapter Sixteen: You Are Not What You Eat -- Chapter Seventeen: Food Allergies -- Chapter Eighteen: Detoxification -- Chapter Nineteen: Food Labelling -- Chapter Twenty: Vitamins, Minerals and Other Supplements -- Chapter Twenty-one: Genetically Modified Organisms -- Chapter Twenty-two: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies - BSE and vCJD -- PART THREE: HEALTHY LIVING -- Chapter Twenty-three: Sun and the Skin: A Violation of Truth -- Chapter Twenty-four: Complementary Medicine: Integrated Waffle? -- Chapter Twenty-five: Alternative Medicines and Herbal Remedies -- Chapter Twenty-six: Exercise -- Chapter Twenty-seven: The Smokescreen of Passive Smoking -- Chapter Twenty-eight: The Air We Breathe -- Chapter Twenty-nine: The MMR Story -- PART FOUR: MYTH INTERPRETATION -- Chapter Thirty: The Harm That Pressure Groups Can Cause -- Chapter Thirty-one: The Misuse of Numbers -- Chapter Thirty-two: Epidemiology -- Further Reading.