Nutritionism
The science and politics of dietary advice
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ISBN-13:
9781743316924
Veröffentl:
2013
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.05.2013
Seiten:
362
Autor:
Gyorgy Scrinis
Gewicht:
485 g
Format:
229x152x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Demystifies the popular obsession with 'good' versus 'bad' nutrients, showing how this is used by the food industry to promote processed foods with misleading health claims. Gyorgy Scrinis explores the origins of this reductive focus on nutrients, and how it can undermine our understanding of what is healthy and unhealthy food.
List of Abbreviations1. A Clash of Nutritional Ideologies2. The Nutritionism Paradigm: Reductive Approaches to Nutrients, Food, and the Body3. The Era of Quantifying Nutritionism: Protective Nutrients, Caloric Reductionism, and Vitamania4.The Era of Good - and - Bad Nutritionism: Bad Nutrients and Nutricentric Dietary Guidelines5. The Macronutrient Diet Wars: From the Low-Fat Campaign to Low-Calorie, Low-Carb, and Low-GI Diets6. Margarine, Butter, and the Trans-Fats Fiasco7. The Era of Functional Nutritionism: Functional Nutrients, Superfoods, and Optimal Dietary Patterns8. Functional Foods: Nutritional Engineering, Nutritional Marketing, and Corporate Nutritionism9. The Food Quality Paradigm: Alternative Approaches to Food and the Body10. After NutritionismAcknowledgmentsAppendix: The Nutritionism and Food Quality LexiconNotesIndex
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