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1 online resource (vi, 352 pages). |
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Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history |
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Arts and traditions of the table.
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| Summary |
Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food, Gyorgy Scrinis' concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food?an approach to food that now dominates nutrition science, dietary advice, and food marketing. Scrinis argues that this ideology of nutritionism has narrowed and in some cases distorted our appreciation of food quality, such that even highly processed foods may be perceived as healthful depending on their content of "good" or "bad" nutrients. Through an engaging investigation into such issues as the butter versus margarine debate, the battle between low-fat, low-carb, and other weight-loss diets, and the food industry's strategic promotion of nutritionally enhanced foods, Scrinis builds a revealing history of the scientific, social, and economic factors driving our modern fascination with nutrition. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-330) and index. |
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A clash of nutritional ideologies -- The nutritionism paradigm : reductive approaches to nutrients, food, and the body -- The era of quantifying nutritionism : protective nutrients, caloric reductionism, and vitamania -- The era of good-and-bad nutritionism : bad nutrients and nutricentric dietary guidelines -- The macro-nutrient diet wars : from the low-fat campaign to low-calorie, low-carb, and low-GI diets -- Margarine, butter, and the trans-fats fiasco : from trans-fats to I-fats -- The era of functional nutritionism : targeted nutrients, superfoods, and optimal diets -- The nutritional façade of functional foods : nutritional engineering, nutritional marketing, and corporate nutritionism -- The food quality paradigm : alternative approaches to food and the body -- After nutritionism. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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Nutrition -- Public opinion.
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Food -- Composition.
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Functional foods.
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Public health -- Political aspects.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diets.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Food Content Guides.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Nutrition.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Nutrition.
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MEDICAL -- Nutrition.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Food Science.
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Food -- Composition.
(OCoLC)fst00930485
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Functional foods. (OCoLC)fst00936070
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Nutrition -- Public opinion.
(OCoLC)fst01042227
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Public health -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01082284
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scrinis, Gyorgy. Nutritionism. New York : Columbia University Press, [2013] 9780231156561 (DLC) 2012050819 (OCoLC)824353141 |
| ISBN |
9780231527149 (electronic bk.) |
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0231527144 (electronic bk.) |
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