Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice
(Sprache: Englisch)
Through an engaging investigation into such issues as the butter versus margarine debate, and the battle between low-fat, low-carb, and other weight-loss diets, Scrinis builds a revealing history of the scientific, social, and economic factors driving society's modern fascination with nutrition.
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Through an engaging investigation into such issues as the butter versus margarine debate, and the battle between low-fat, low-carb, and other weight-loss diets, Scrinis builds a revealing history of the scientific, social, and economic factors driving society's modern fascination with nutrition.
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List of Abbreviations1. A Clash of Nutritional Ideologies2. The Nutritionism Paradigm: Reductive Approaches to Nutrients3. The Era of Quantifying Nutritionism: Protective Nutrients4. The Era of Good- and-Bad Nutritionism: Bad Nutrients and Nutricentric Dietary Guidelines5. The Macronutrient Diet Wars: From the Low-Fat Campaign to Low-Calorie6. Margarine, Butter, and the Trans-Fats Fiasco7. The Era of Functional Nutritionism: Functional Nutrients8. Functional Foods: Nutritional Engineering9. The Food Quality Paradigm: Alternative Approaches to Food and the Body10. After NutritionismAcknowledgmentsAppendix: The Nutritionism and Food Quality LexiconNotesIndex
Autoren-Porträt von Gyorgy Scrinis
Gyorgy Scrinis teaches food politics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research concerns the sociology, philosophy, and politics of food, nutrition, science, and technology.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gyorgy Scrinis
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 22 Jahre
- 352 Seiten, 3 Abbildungen, Maße: 15,8 x 23,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 0231156561
- ISBN-13: 9780231156561
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Nutritionism is an important contribution to the discourse of the alternative food movement, providing a unique, scholarly rational for the food-quality paradigm. Gyorgy Scrinis provides a new language for talking about how our ideas about what makes a good diet have come to be." - Charlotte Biltekoff, University of California, Davis
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