Nutritionism : The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scrinis, Gyorgy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Colección:Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
Temas:
Food > Composition.
Functional foods.
Nutrition - Public opinion.
Nutrition > Public opinion.
Public health > Political aspects.
SCIENCE / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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