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Diets and dieting : a cultural encyclopedia /
From the Publisher: Diets and dieting have concerned-and sometimes obsessed-human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of entries
- Introduction : Some weighty thoughts on dieting and epidemics
- Entries A-Z
- Supplemental resources
- Index.
- Entries: Aboulia
- Advertising
- Alternative medicine
- Anorexia
- Atkins, Robert
- Atlas, Charles
- Atwater, Wilbur Olin
- Banting, William
- Bariatric surgery
- Barr, Roseanne
- Beaumont, William
- Beecher, Catharine
- Behavior
- Benedict, Francis Gano
- Binge-eating
- Blood-type diet
- Bodybuilding
- - Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Anthelme
- Bruch, Hilde
- Bulik, Cynthia
- Butz, Earl
- Byron, George Gordon
- Cabbage soup diet
- Callas, Maria
- Calorie
- Cannon, William Bradford
- Carpenter, Karen
- Celebrities
- Cheyne, George
- Children
- China in the early twentieth century
- China today
- - Chittenden, Russell Henry
- Christianity
- Cornaro, Luigi
- Craig, Jenny and Sid
- Davis, Adelle
- Detoxification
- Developing world
- Diana, Princess of Wales-- Disability
- Dublin, Louis
- Eating competitions
- Electrotherapy
- Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, Empress of Austria
- Emaciated body images in the media
- Enlightenment dietetics
- Fashion
- Fast food
- Fat assessment in adults
- Fat camps
- Fat-positive
- Fat tax
- Fletcher, Horace
- Flockhart, Calista
- Fogle, Jared
- Fonda, Jane
- Food choice
- Food pyramid
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Friedman, Jeffrey
- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
- Genetics
- Globalization
- Gold, Tracy
- Graham, Sylvester
- Greek medicine and dieting
- Grunberger, George
- Gull, William.
- Hauser, Gayelord
- Hay, William
- Homeostasis
- Hopkins, Frederick Gowland
- Hormone
- Hormones used in dieting
- Hornby, Lesley (Twiggy)
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- Imes-Jackson, Mo'Nique
- Infectobesity
- Internet
- Israeli, Isaac ben Salomon
- Jews
- Johnson, Samuel
- Kellogg, John Harvey
- Kneipp, Sebastian
- LaLanne, Jack
- Lambert, Daniel
- Leibel, Rudolph
- Lessius, Leonard
- Lindlahr, Henry
- Linn, Robert
- Literature and fat bodies
- Low-fat and fat-free foods
- Luther, Martin
- Macfadden, Bernarr
- McGraw, Phil (Dr. Phil)
- Manheim, Camryn
- Marcé, Louis-Victor
- Mazel, Judy
- Media
- Medical use of dieting
- Medieval diets
- Men
- Metabolism
- Metcalfe, William
- Milk
- t Mitchell, S. Weir
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Morton, Richard
- Murray, George
- Natural man
- Nidetch, Jean
- Noorden, Carl von
- Obesity epidemic
- Obsessive compulsive disorders
- Old age and obesity
- Ornish, Dean
- Paleolithic diet
- Peters, LuLu Hunt
- Pets
- Phytochemicals
- Post, C.W.
- Pregnancy
- Pritikin, Nathan
- Processed foods
- Professionalization of dieting
- Psychotherapy and weight change
- Religion and dieting
- Risks associated with dieting
- Roman medicine and dieting
- Russell, Lillian
- Scales and public weighing
- Schwarzenegger, Arnold
- Self-help
- Sex
- Sexual orientation
- Sigler, Jamie Lynn
- Simmons, Richard
- Sinclair, Upton
- Smoking
- Socioeconomic status
- Southern fat
- Sports
- Spurlock, Morgan
- Stress
- Sugar busters
- Sweeteners
- Taft, William Howard
- Tarnower, Herman
- Thomson, Samuel
- Trall, Russell
- Van Helmont, Johannes
- Vegetarianism
- Very-low-calorie diets
- Weight gain
- Wesley, John
- White, Ellen G.
- Wigmore, Ann
- William the Conqueror
- Winfrey, Oprah
- Zone diet.