Nutritionism : : the science and politics of dietary advice / / Gyorgy Scrinis.

• Superior document: Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history
• Author: Scrinis, Gyorgy.
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Columbia University Press,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Arts and traditions of the table.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (363 pages) :; illustrations.

Table of Contents

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 macronutrient diet wars : from the low-fat campaign to low-calorie, low-carb, and low-GI diets -- Margarine, butter, and the trans-fats fiasco -- The era of functional nutritionism : functional nutrients, superfoods, and optimal dietary patterns -- Functional foods : nutritional engineering, nutritional marketing, and corporate nutritionism -- The food quality paradigm : alternative approaches to food and the body -- After nutritionism.