Nutritionism : the science and politics of dietary advice /

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Main Author: Scrinis, Gyorgy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.
Series:Arts and traditions of the table.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.