Description |
viii, 359 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents |
The magical feast -- Of cabbages and things -- Mr. Graham bakes a cracker -- Little men, little women, little food -- Water, water, everywhere -- Snap! Crackle! Enter Dr. Kellogg! -- The battles of Battle Creek -- Life along the alimentary canal -- The jungle, the sausage and the law -- Chew, chew, Horace -- The bare torso king goes public -- How to stop your cow from drooling -- Eating for the hull of it -- The drinks are on the Hauser -- Old Proteinaceous Joe or Is there sex after dinner? -- Mrs. Spratt's millions or Diet is a four-letter word -- Protomania or Richard Nixon's diet revolution -- Swing low, sweet glucose tolerance -- How to sell a vitamin -- My mother squeaked or How to write about health foods -- The red-faced confession and other tales of food cures and law -- Quick, nurse! The bean sprouts! -- Meanwhile, back at the organic ranch -- Organic politics or Gloria Swanson goes to Washington -- How the poison gets into your health food |
Summary |
With humor and style, Ronald Deutsch tells the story of food faddists in America -- all the nutty people who have exploited our desire for better health and our limited understanding of nutrition. A total revision of the 1961 Nuts Among the Berries that sold 3 million copies. - Back cover |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 341-349 |
Subject |
Diet in disease.
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Food habits -- South America -- Case studies.
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Food habits -- United States.
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Food habits.
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Food preferences -- United States.
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Nutrition -- United States.
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Nutrition.
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Diet Fads.
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Nutritional Physiological Phenomena.
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Nutrition
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Nutrition
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Genre/Form |
Popular Work.
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Case studies.
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LC no. |
77070401 |
ISBN |
0915950081 |
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091595009X (paperback) |
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