Measured meals : nutrition in America /
2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleAs nutritional studies proliferate, producing more and more knowledge about the connection between diet and health, Americans seem increasingly confused about what to eat to stay healthy. In Measured Meals, Jessica J. Mudry looks at the language used in the Unit...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Albany :
SUNY Press,
2009
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Introduction: Eating by Numbers: How Language Shapes Food and Eating
- 1. The Early History of American 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 Quantification.