The industrial diet : the degradation of food and the struggle for healthy eating /

The Industrial Diet chronicles the long-term transformation of food from a natural resource into an edible commodity that far too often fails to nourish us. Anthony Winson reveals how a combination of technological changes, population growth, and political and economic factors helped constitute and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Winson, Anthony, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2013.
Temas:
Nutrition > History.
Diet > History.
Food industry and trade > Political aspects.
Food industry and trade > Technological innovations.
Food industry and trade > Social aspects.
Diet in disease.
Food Industry
Diet
Fast Foods
Food-Processing Industry
Aliments > Industrie et commerce > Aspect social.
Aliments > Industrie et commerce > Innovations.
Aliments > Industrie et commerce > Aspect politique.
Alimentation > Histoire.
Nutrition > Histoire.
Aliments > Industrie et commerce.
Régimes alimentaires.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Food industry and trade > Political aspects
Food industry and trade > Social aspects
Food industry and trade > Technological innovations
Nutrition
Ernährungsgewohnheit
Lebensmittelindustrie
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • pt. 1. Food environments from palaeolithic times. Between producers and eaters : shaping mass diets
  • Discordant diets, unhealthy people
  • From neolithic to capitalist diets
  • pt. 2. The beginnings of the industrial diet, 1870-1940. From patent flour to Wheaties
  • Pushing product for profit : early branding
  • pt. 3. The intensification of the industrial diet, 1945-80. Speeding up the making of food
  • The simplification of whole food
  • Adulteration and the rise of pseudo foods
  • The spatial colonization of the industrial diet : the supermarket
  • Meals away from home : the health burden of restaurant chains
  • pt. 4. Globalization and resistance in the neo-liberal era. The industrial diet goes global
  • Transformative food movements and the struggle for healthy eating
  • Case studies of a transformative food movement
  • Toward a sustainable and ethical health-based dietary regime.

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