Empty pleasures
Subtitle: the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda
By: by Carolyn de la Peña.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780807834091
Subjects: Nonnutritive sweeteners -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: False scarlet : healthful sugar vs. adulterous saccharin in the early twentieth century; title: Alchemic ally : women's creativity and control in saccharin and cyclamates; title: Diet men : the food-pharma origins of artificially sweetened products; title: Prosperity stomachs and prosperous women: diet entrepreneurs; title: Saccharin rebels : the right to risky pleasure in 1977; title: Nutrasweet nation : profit, peril, and the promise of a free lunch; title: Conclusion : Splenda, sugar, and what mother nature intended.