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Measured meals : nutrition in America / Jessica J. Mudry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mudry, Jessica J., 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nutrition--United States.
- Nutrition.
- Nutrition policy--United States.
- Nutrition policy.
- Diet--United States.
- Diet.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Measured Meals
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Eating by Numbers: How Language Shapes Food and Eating
- 1. The Early History ofAmerican Nutrition Research: From Quality to Quantity
- 2. Reading Federal Nutrition Guides: Quantification as Communication Strategy
- 3. The Food Pyramid: Visualizing Quantification
- 4. Scaling the Pyramid: Criticisms of the USDA
- 5. Talking about Taste: Alternatives to a Discourse of Quantifi cation
- Conclusion. Rethinking Common SenseToward a Rhetoric of Eating
- Notes
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791493861
- 0791493865
- 9781441615763
- 1441615768
- OCLC:
- 429905174
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