Nutritionism
Subtitle: the science and politics of dietary advice
By: Gyorgy Scrinis
Series: Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history; Arts and traditions of the table
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780231156561
Subjects: Nutrition; Public opinion; Functional foods; Food; Public health; Political aspects; Composition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: A clash of nutritional ideologies; title: The nutritionism paradigm : reductive approaches to nutrients, food, and the body; title: The era of quantifying nutritionism : protective nutrients, caloric reductionism, and vitamania; title: The era of good-and-bad nutritionism : bad nutrients and nutricentric dietary guidelines; title: The macronutrient diet wars : from the low-fat campaign to low-calorie, low-carb, and low-GI diets; title: Margarine, butter, and the trans-fats fiasco; title: The era of functional nutritionism : functional nutrients, superfoods, and optimal dietary patterns; title: Functional foods: nutritional engineering, nutritional marketing, and corporate nutritionism; title: The food quality paradigm : alternative approaches to food and the body; title: After nutritionism.