Nutritionism : : The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice / / Gyorgy Scrinis.
Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food, Gyorgy Scrinis's concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food-an approach that has dominated nutrition science, dietary advice, and food marketing. Scrinis a...
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Scrinis, Gyorgy, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Nutritionism : The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice / Gyorgy Scrinis. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (368 p.) : ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›3. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. A Clash of Nutritional Ideologies -- 2. The Nutritionism Paradigm -- 3. The Era of Quantifying Nutritionism -- 4. The Era of Good- and- Bad Nutritionism -- 5. The Macronutrient Diet Wars -- 6. Margarine, Butter, and the Trans- Fats Fiasco -- 7. The Era of Functional Nutritionism -- 8. Functional Foods -- 9. The Food Quality Paradigm -- 10. After Nutritionism -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: The Nutritionism and Food Quality Lexicon -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food, Gyorgy Scrinis's concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food-an approach that has dominated nutrition science, dietary advice, and food marketing. Scrinis argues this ideology 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. Investigating 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 reveals the scientific, social, and economic factors driving our modern fascination with nutrition.Scrinis develops an original framework and terminology for analyzing the characteristics and consequences of nutritionism since the late nineteenth century. He begins with the era of quantification, in which the idea of protective nutrients, caloric reductionism, and vitamins' curative effects took shape. He follows with the era of good and bad nutritionism, which set nutricentric dietary guidelines and defined the parameters of unhealthy nutrients; and concludes with our current era of functional nutritionism, in which the focus has shifted to targeted nutrients, superfoods, and optimal diets. Scrinis's research underscores the critical role of nutrition science and dietary advice in shaping our relationship to food and our bodies and in heightening our nutritional anxieties. He ultimately shows how nutritionism has aligned the demands and perceived needs of consumers with the commercial interests of food manufacturers and corporations. Scrinis also offers an alternative paradigm for assessing the healthfulness of foods-the food quality paradigm-that privileges food production and processing quality, cultural-traditional knowledge, and sensual-practical experience, and promotes less reductive forms of nutrition research and dietary advice. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Food Composition. Functional foods. Nutrition - Public opinion. Nutrition Public opinion. Public health Political aspects. SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231156578 https://doi.org/10.7312/scri15656 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231527149 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231527149/original |
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