Arnold E. Bender

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

• 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)