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Author Santich, Barbara.

Title What the doctors ordered : 150 years of dietary advice in Australia / Barbara Santich
Published South Melbourne : Hyland House, 1995

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  613.20994 San/Wtd  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Otto Hirschfeld Memorial Collection
Otto Hirschfeld Memorial Collection
Contents Introdution -- Notes on money, weights and measures -- Part One. The protein era: 1. The meat monopoly -- 2. Philip Muskett and the nineteenth-century dietary reformers -- 3. The Anglo-Saxon legacy -- Part Two. The vitamin era: 4. Balancing the diet -- 5. Diet and national health -- 6. Educate! -- Part Three. The low-fat era: 7. Shaping popular beliefs and attitudes: the Australian Women's Weekly -- 8. The cholesterol countdown -- 9. From guidelines to policy -- 10. Retro/prospective
Analysis Diet
Food habits
Health promotion
History
Notes Includes index
Library's N copy signed by the author, September 2014. ANL
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 227-233
Subject Diet therapy -- Australia -- History.
Diet -- Australia -- History.
Dietetics -- Australia -- History.
Food habits -- Australia -- History.
Nutrition -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Nutrition -- Australia -- History.
ISBN 1875657444
Other Titles One hunded and fifty years of dietary advice in Australia