Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health

Informationen zum Autor Nancy N. Chen Klappentext What we eat! how we eat! where we eat! and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also deeply connected to how we medicate. The multimillion dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life! and avoiding harmful foods (or choosing healthy ones) is considered separate from consuming medicine-another multimillion-dollar industry. In contrast! most traditional medical systems view food as inseparable from medicine and regard medicinal foods as the front-line of healing. Drawing on medical texts and food therapy practices from around the world and throughout history! Nancy N. Chen locates old and new crossovers between food and medicine in different social and cultural contexts. The consumption of spices! sugar! and salt was once linked to specific healing properties! and trade in these commodities transformed not just the political economy of Europe! Asia! and the New World but local tastes and food practices as well. Today's technologies are rapidly changing traditional attitudes toward food! enabling the cultivation of new admixtures! such as nutraceuticals and genetically modified food! that link food to medicine in novel ways. Chen considers these developments against the evolving food regimes of the diet industry in order to build a framework for understanding diet as individual practice! social prescription! and political formation. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction/Rethinking Food and MedicinePart One/Food as Medicine1 Healing Foods and Longevity2 Dietary PrescriptionsPart Two/Medicine as Food3 Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods4 Genetically Modified Foods and DrugsConclusion/Eating and MedicatingNotesBibliographyIndex

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nancy (University of California at Santa Cruz) Chen, Nancy N. Chen, Chen Nancy
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.11.2008
• EAN: 9780231134842
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13484-2
• Seiten: 144
• Abmessung: 147 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Themen: Ratgeber > Gesundheit > Alternative Heilverfahren; HEALTH & FITNESS / Alternative Therapies, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Diets, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss, Diets & dieting, Complementary therapies, healing & health, Diets and dieting, nutrition, Complementary therapies, healing and health, diet therapy; nutrition