In defense of food an eater's manifesto
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- ISBN: 9781429581233 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 1429581239 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 9781429581264 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 1429581263 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
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1 online resource (244 p.) - Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Description based on print version record. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-228) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. The age of nutritionism. -- From foods to nutrients -- Nutritionism defined -- Nutritionism comes to market -- Food science's golden age -- The melting of the lipid hypothesis -- Eat right, get fatter -- Beyond the pleasure principle -- The proof in the low-fat pudding -- Bad science -- Nutritionism's children -- pt. 2. The Western diet and the diseases of civilization. -- The Aborigine in all of us -- The elephant in the room -- The industrialization of eating : what we do know : From whole foods to refined ; From complexity to simplicity ; From quality to quantity ; From leaves to seeds ; From food culture to food science -- pt. 3. Getting over nutritionism. -- Escape from the Western diet -- Eat food : food defined -- Mostly plants : what to eat -- Not too much : how to eat. |
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Subject: | Nutrition Food habits Voedingsgewoonten Nutritional Physiological Phenomena -- Popular Works Ernährung Ernährungserziehung Ernährungsgewohnheit Zivilisationskrankheit Verenigde Staten |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. |