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Eating Right in America

The Cultural Politics of Food and Health

By: Charlotte Biltekoff

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Eating Right in America

The Cultural Politics of Food and Health

By: Charlotte Biltekoff

Eating Right in America is a powerful critique of dietary reform in the United States from the late nineteenth-century emergence of nutritional science through the contemporary alternative food movement and campaign against obesity. Charlotte Biltekoff analyzes the discourses of dietary reform, including the writings of reformers, as well as the materials they created to bring their messages to the public. She shows that while the primary aim may be to improve health, the process of teaching people to "eat right" in the U.S. inevitably involves shaping certain kinds of subjects and citizens, and shoring up the identity and social boundaries of the ever-threatened American middle class. Without discounting the pleasures of food or the value of wellness, Biltekoff advocates a critical reappraisal of our obsession with diet as a proxy for health. Based on her understanding of the history of dietary reform, she argues that talk about "eating right" in America too often obscures structural and environmental stresses and constraints, while naturalizing the dubious redefinition of health as an individual responsibility and imperative.

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0822377276

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Real Food, Real Facts

Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge

By: Charlotte Biltekoff

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Real Food, Real Facts

Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge

By: Charlotte Biltekoff

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In recent decades, many members of the public have come to see processed food as a problem that needs to be solved by eating "real" food and reforming the food system. But for many food industry professionals, the problem is not processed food or the food system itself, but misperceptions and irrational fears caused by the public's lack of scientific understanding. In her highly original book, Charlotte Biltekoff explores the role that science and scientific authority play in food industry responses to consumer concerns about what we eat and how it is made. As Biltekoff documents, industry efforts to correct public misperceptions through science-based education have consistently misunderstood the public's concerns, which she argues are an expression of politics. This has entrenched "food scientism" in public discourse and seeded a form of antipolitics, with broad consequences. Real Food, Real Facts offers lessons that extend well beyond food choice and will appeal to readers interested in how everyday people come to accept or reject scientific authority in matters of personal health and well-being.

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Univ of California Press

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0520400976

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Eating Right in America

The Cultural Politics of Food and Health

By: Charlotte Biltekoff

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The Cultural Politics of Food and Health

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Real Food, Real Facts

Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge

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The Oxford Handbook of Food History

By: Jeffrey M. Pilcher

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The Oxford Handbook of Food History

By: Jeffrey M. Pilcher

This handbook places existing works of food history in historiographical context, crossing disciplinary, chronological and geographic boundaries, while also suggesting new routes for future research. The 27 essays in this book are organised into 5 basic sections: historiography and disciplinary approaches as well as the production, circulation, and consumption of food.

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Eating Right in America

Eating Right in America

Real Food, Real Facts

Real Food, Real Facts

Eating Right in America

Eating Right in America

Real Food, Real Facts

Real Food, Real Facts

The Oxford Handbook of Food History

The Oxford Handbook of Food History

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