The industrial diet : the degradation of food and the struggle for healthy eating / Anthony Winson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winson, Anthony.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diet.

Nutrition.

Food industry and trade--Health aspects.

Food industry and trade.

Industrialization--Health aspects.

Industrialization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The global health crisis has been debated in political arenas, written about in best-selling manifestos, and exposed in Oscar-nominated documentaries. Yet, despite all the media attention, there are few studies that look seriously at its underlying cause � the rise of the industrial diet. The Industrial Diet chronicles the long-term developments that transformed food into edible commodities that far too often fail to nourish us. Tracing the industrial diet's history from its roots in the nineteenth century through to present-day globalism, Anthony Winson looks at the role of technology, population growth, and political and economic factors in the constitution and transformation of mass dietary regimes and provides new evidence linking broad-based dietary changes with negative health effects. With its focus on the degradation of food and the emergent struggle for healthful eating, this book encourages us to reflect on the state of our food environments and create realistic and innovative strategies that can lead to a healthier future.

Contents:

Part one : Food environments from palaeolithic times. Between producers and eaters: a dietary regime approach

Discordant diets, unhealthy people

From neolithic to capitalist diets

Part two : The beginnings of the industrial diet 1870-1940. From patent flour to Wheaties

Pushing product for profit via branding: the early twentieth century

Part three 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

Part four 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:

Co-published by: NYU Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-2554-5

0-7748-2553-7

OCLC:

830932306