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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(Click on a chapter name to read a page)

Errors in the 3rd printing

Foreword
  Plants are mean enemies
  Why new foods terrify us

Dangers we should worry about but don't
  Parsnips and celery: lethal sunburn
  Beans: bellyaches and worse
  Lima beans and other cyanide-rich plants
  Broad beans: food of the dead?
  Alfalfa: a hazardous food
  Alkaloids: a bitter story
  Shellfish dangers
  Dangers from fish
  Dangers in moldy foods
  Herbal medicine
  Dangers from food-borne infection

Things we worry about but need not
  Chemicals, natural and man-made
  MSG = better tasting-food
  Preservatives and additives

Things we ought to know
  Evaluating information
  Cancer: a modern epidemic?
  Hormesis: a little bit of poison may be good for us
  Ways to prolong lifespan

Epilogue