Nutritionism : : The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice /

Nutritionism : : The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice / / Gyorgy Scrinis.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Scrinis, Gyorgy,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›3.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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