Food, medicine, and the quest for good health : nutrition, medicine, and culture /

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What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life, and avoiding harmful foods (or choosing healthy ones) is cons...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen, Nancy N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Diet therapy > Social aspects.
Functional foods > Social aspects.
Food habits.
Medical anthropology.
Diet therapy.
Diet Therapy
Feeding Behavior
Diétothérapie > Aspect social.
Nutraceutiques > Aspect social.
Habitudes alimentaires.
Diétothérapie.
MEDICAL > Diet Therapy.
MEDICAL > Nursing > Nutrition.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Agriculture & Food.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life, and avoiding harmful foods (or choosing healthy ones) is considered separate from consuming medicine - another multimillion-dollar industry. In contrast, most traditional medical systems view food as inseparable from medicine and regard medicinal foods as the front line of healing. Drawing on medical texts and food therapy practices from ar.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 128 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-126) and index.
ISBN:9780231508919
0231508913

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