- Description
- 1 online resource (279 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Empty pleasures (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Empty pleasures (Online)
- Subject
- Nonnutritive sweeteners > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- False scarlet : healthful sugar vs. adulterous saccharin in the early twentieth century -- Alchemic ally : women's creativity and control in saccharin and cyclamates -- Diet men : the food-pharma origins of artificially sweetened products -- Prosperity stomachs and prosperous women : diet entrepreneurs -- Saccharin rebels : the right to risky pleasure in 1977 -- Nutrasweet nation : profit, peril, and the promise of a free lunch -- Conclusion : Splenda, sugar, and what mother nature intended.
- LCCN
- 2010006638
- OCLC
- ssj0000416767
- Author
Peña, Carolyn Thomas de la.
- Title
Empty pleasures [electronic resource] : the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda / Carolyn de la Peña.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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