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Author Scrinis, Gyorgy, author

Title Nutritionism : the science and politics of dietary advice / Gyorgy Scrinis
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 352 pages)
Series Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history
Arts and traditions of the table.
Contents A clash of nutritional ideologies -- The nutritionism paradigm : reductive approaches to nutrients, food, and the body -- The era of quantifying nutritionism : protective nutrients, caloric reductionism, and vitamania -- The era of good-and-bad nutritionism : bad nutrients and nutricentric dietary guidelines -- The macro-nutrient diet wars : from the low-fat campaign to low-calorie, low-carb, and low-GI diets -- Margarine, butter, and the trans-fats fiasco : from trans-fats to I-fats -- The era of functional nutritionism : targeted nutrients, superfoods, and optimal diets -- The nutritional façade of functional foods : nutritional engineering, nutritional marketing, and corporate nutritionism -- The food quality paradigm : alternative approaches to food and the body -- After nutritionism
Summary Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food, Gyorgy Scrinis' concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food?an approach to food that now dominates nutrition science, dietary advice, and food marketing. Scrinis argues that this ideology of nutritionism has narrowed and in some cases distorted our appreciation of food quality, such that even highly processed foods may be perceived as healthful depending on their content of "good" or "bad" nutrients. Through an engaging investigation into such issues as the butter versus margarine debate, the battle between low-fat, low-carb, and other weight-loss diets, and the food industry's strategic promotion of nutritionally enhanced foods, Scrinis builds a revealing history of the scientific, social, and economic factors driving our modern fascination with nutrition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-330) and index
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Subject Nutrition -- Public opinion
Food -- Composition.
Functional foods.
Public health -- Political aspects
Nutrition -- Requirements.
Food -- Analysis.
Nutrition policy.
Nutritional Requirements
Food Analysis
Functional Food
Nutrition Policy
Public Opinion
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diets.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Food Content Guides.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Nutrition.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Nutrition.
MEDICAL -- Nutrition.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Food Science.
Nutrition -- Requirements
Nutrition policy
Food -- Analysis
Food -- Composition
Functional foods
Nutrition -- Public opinion
Public health -- Political aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231527149
0231527144