Industrial Diet The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating

Name: Industrial Diet The Degradation of Food and the Struggle for Healthy Eating
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ISBN: 9781479862795

ISBN-10: 1479862797

ISBN-13: 9781479862795

Edition: 2013

Authors: Anthony Winson

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“This is a hugely informative book, stocked full of careful analysis.”—Amy Best, Associate Professor of Sociology, George Mason University Accused by many of creating a global health crisis, the American diet has been a source of controversy for years. The way Americans eat—and the disastrous health problems that can often result--is debated on daytime talk shows and in political arenas, written about in bestselling manifestos, and exposed in Oscar-nominated documentaries. Yet, despite all the attention from the media and the scientific community, few studies have looked seriously at the mass-market forces underlying our Western diet. In The Industrial Diet, Anthony Winson chronicles the…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Anthony Winson is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph.



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Acknowledgments


Introduction



Food Environments From Palaeolithic Times



Between Producers and Eaters: Shaping Mass Diets



Discordant Diets, Unhealthy People



From Neolithic to Capitalist Diets



The Beginnings of the Industrial Diet, 1870-1940



From Patent Flour to Wheaties



Pushing Product for Profit: Early Branding



The Intensification of the Industrial Diet, 1945-80



Speeding Up the Making of Food



The Simplification of Whole Food



Adulteration and the Rise of Pseudo Foods



The Spatial Colonization of the Industrial Diet: The Supermarket



Meals Away from Home: The Health Burden of Restaurant Chains



Globalization and Resistance in the Neo-Liberal Era



The Industrial Diet Goes Global



Transformative Food Movements and the Struggle for Healthy Eating



Case Studies of a Transformative Food Movement



Toward a Sustainable and Ethical Health-Based Dietary Regime


Notes


Index