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Diet and the Disease of Civilization.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bitar, Adrienne Rose.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diet.
- Science and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Diet books have been some of the bestselling books of the 20th century and, upon close reading, reveal new philosophies depicting civilization itself as a disease and diet as the cure. Bitar shows how diet books serve as utopian manifestos for a better body, a healthier society, and a more perfect world..
- Contents:
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Paleolithic Diets and the Caveman Utopia
- 2. Devotional Diets and the American Eden
- 3. Primitive Diets and the “Paradise Paradox”
- 4. Detoxification Diets and Concepts of a Toxic Modernity
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Notes:
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- ISBN:
- 9780813589664
- 0813589665
- OCLC:
- 1031915869
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