Measured Meals: Nutrition in America

by Mudry, Jessica J.

• ISBN13: 9780791493823
• ISBN10: 0791493822
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction Eating by Numbers: How Language Shapes Food and Eating	p. 1
The Early History of American Nutrition Research: From Quality to Quantity	p. 21
Reading Federal Nutrition Guides: Quantification as Communication Strategy	p. 47
The Food Pyramid: Visualizing Quantification	p. 77
Scaling the Pyramid: Criticisms of the USDA	p. 105
Talking about Taste: Alternatives to a Discourse of Quantification	p. 137
Conclusion Rethinking Common Sense: Toward a Rhetoric of Eating	p. 169
Notes	p. 179
References	p. 191
Index	p. 207
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