Research Catalog

Title

• The industrial diet : the degradation of food and the struggle for healthy eating / Anthony Winson.

Author

Winson, Anthony

Publication

New York : New York University Press, 2014.

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Description

x, 340 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Accused by many of creating a global health crisis, the American diet has been a source of controversy for years. The way Americans eat--and the disastrous health problems that can often result--is debated on daytime talk shows and in political arenas, written about in bestselling manifestos, and exposed in Oscar-nominated documentaries. Yet, despite all the attention from the media and the scientific community, few studies have looked seriously at the mass-market forces underlying our Western diet.\\In The Industrial Diet, Anthony Winson chronicles the forces that have transformed our natural resources into an industry that produces edible commodities, an industry that far too often subverts our well-being instead of nourishing us. Tracing the industrial diet's history from its roots in the nineteenth century through to the present day, Winson looks at the role of technology, population growth, and political and economic factors in the constitution and transformation of mass dietary regimes. In addition to providing new evidence linking broad-based dietary changes with negative health effects in the developed and developing world, Winson also outlines realistic and innovative strategies that can lead to a healthier future. A fresh new look at the degradation of food and the emergent struggle for healthful eating, this book is an eye-opening tour of the state of nutrition and food culture today.

Subject

• Diet
• Food Industry
• Food Supply
• Food industry and trade > Health aspects
• Food supply > Health aspects
• Industrialization > Health aspects
• Industry
• Nutrition

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Between producers and eaters: a dietary regime approach -- Discordant diets, unhealthy people -- From neolithic to capitalist diets -- From patent flour to Wheaties -- Pushing product for profit via branding: the early twentieth century -- 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 -- 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.

ISBN

• 9781479862795 (pb : alk. paper)
• 1479862797 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013011874

OCLC

833630940

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library