Nutritionism - The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice

An eye-opening study undermining our focus on nutrients as the key to healthy eating.

List of contents

List of Abbreviations
1. A Clash of Nutritional Ideologies
2. The Nutritionism Paradigm: Reductive Approaches to Nutrients
3. The Era of Quantifying Nutritionism: Protective Nutrients
4. The Era of Good- and-Bad Nutritionism: Bad Nutrients and Nutricentric Dietary Guidelines
5. The Macronutrient Diet Wars: From the Low-Fat Campaign to Low-Calorie
6. Margarine, Butter, and the Trans-Fats Fiasco
7. The Era of Functional Nutritionism: Functional Nutrients
8. Functional Foods: Nutritional Engineering
9. The Food Quality Paradigm: Alternative Approaches to Food and the Body
10. After Nutritionism
Acknowledgments
Appendix: The Nutritionism and Food Quality Lexicon
Notes
Index

About the author

Gyorgy Scrinis is a lecturer in food politics in the School of Land and Environment at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research addresses the politics, sociology, and philosophy of food and of science and technology.

Summary

An eye-opening study undermining our focus on nutrients as the key to healthy eating.

Product details

• Authors: Gyorgy Scrinis, Gyorgy (Honorary Fellow Scrinis
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.02.2015
• EAN: 9780231156578
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15657-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History; Arts and Traditions of the Tab; Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History; Arts and Traditions of the Tab
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Diet; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General