Published Nutrition Ghostwriting Project
"Food For Thought" by Nicole Natale
"Food For Thought" by Nicole Natale
The cover image for this project is cropped from one that appears in the finished book. I got this assignment from one of my business and creative colleagues and it was a lot of fun. She gave me free rein on the voice, a list of ingredients to research and a rough word count for each little article. While I was working on that part, she was creating a series of brain-healthy recipes the reader can use to incorporate each of the ingredients into their diet. We tried to strike a balance between practical, useful nutritional information and an entertaining delivery. She very generously credited me as a collaborator and researcher in the back of the book. It's published and up for sale on Amazon.
Here's a sample of the light tone used for each nutritional description... there's a bunch of them:
"Along with all the flat-worlders and those rubes way back in the nineties who believed Pluto was a real planet, folks once thought the B vitamins were a single vitamin and called it vitamin B. We now know that they’re chemically distinct nutrients that often occur together in the same foods. Although new ones are added to the canonical list from time to time depending on which sources you read, there are somewhere between eight and eleven more-or-less “official” water-soluble B vitamins that play nutritionally important but separate roles in human cell metabolism. Supplements that have all eight are usually called B complex, but individual B vitamins are referred to by specific names like B1, B2, B3 and so on.
Here's a sample of the light tone used for each nutritional description... there's a bunch of them:
"Along with all the flat-worlders and those rubes way back in the nineties who believed Pluto was a real planet, folks once thought the B vitamins were a single vitamin and called it vitamin B. We now know that they’re chemically distinct nutrients that often occur together in the same foods. Although new ones are added to the canonical list from time to time depending on which sources you read, there are somewhere between eight and eleven more-or-less “official” water-soluble B vitamins that play nutritionally important but separate roles in human cell metabolism. Supplements that have all eight are usually called B complex, but individual B vitamins are referred to by specific names like B1, B2, B3 and so on.
You might wonder why the numbers go all the way up to twelve when there are only supposed to be eight. We don’t know either, and couldn’t find anyone who would go on the record, but it very likely has something to do with long-standing scientific arguments over which ones truly qualify for the list. Even the ones that are controversial are known to provide important health benefits, but so far the reasons why have yet to be proven in a laboratory. So we’ll all just have to live with gaps in the numbers for a bit longer. For the purposes of brain health, we’re most interested in vitamin B1, also known as thiamine, and vitamin B2, or riboflavin."
