Measured meals : nutrition in America / / Jessica J. Mudry
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| Autore: |
Mudry Jessica J. <1974->
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| Titolo: |
Measured meals : nutrition in America / / Jessica J. Mudry
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 613.20973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nutrition - United States |
| Nutrition policy - United States | |
| Diet - United States | |
| Rhetoric | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Measured Meals -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Eating by Numbers: How Language Shapes Food and Eating -- 1. The Early History ofAmerican 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 Quantifi cation -- Conclusion. Rethinking Common SenseToward a Rhetoric of Eating -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Measured meals |
| ISBN: | 9780791493861 |
| 0791493865 | |
| 9781441615763 | |
| 1441615768 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910958956103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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