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The industrial diet : the degradation of food and the struggle for healthy eating

Title
The industrial diet : the degradation of food and the struggle for healthy eating / Anthony Winson.
Author
Winson, Anthony.
Publication
Vancouver : UBC Press, c2013.
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x, 340 p. : ill.; 23 cm
Summary
The Industrial Diet chronicles the long-term transformation of food from a natural resource into an edible commodity that far too often fails to nourish us. Anthony Winson reveals how a combination of technological changes, population growth, and political and economic factors helped constitute and transform mass dietary regimes from the nineteenth century to the present day, and he offers 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 to create realistic and innovative strategies that can lead to a healthier future.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-332) and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic formats.
Issued By (note)
  • Co-published by: NYU Press.
Contents
Pt. 1. Food environments from palaeolithic times. Between producers and eaters : shaping mass diets -- Discordant diets, unhealthy people -- From neolithic to capitalist diets -- pt. 2. The beginnings of the industrial diet, 1870-1940. From patent flour to Wheaties -- Pushing product for profit : early branding -- pt. 3. 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 -- pt. 4. 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.
Call Number
JBD 17-122
ISBN
  • 9780774825511
  • 0774825510
LCCN
2013427990
OCLC
828140564
Author
Winson, Anthony.
Title
The industrial diet : the degradation of food and the struggle for healthy eating / Anthony Winson.
Imprint
Vancouver : UBC Press, c2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-332) and index.
Additional Formats
Issued also in electronic formats.
Issued By
Co-published by: NYU Press.
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JBD 17-122
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