Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.
Measured Meals: Nutrition in America
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As 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 United States to communicate about health and nutrition, and reveals its effects on reframing, reshaping, and controlling what and how Americans eat. Analyzing the USDA and American federal food guidelines over the past one hundred years, Mudry shows how the language of nutrition has evolved over time. She critiques the trend of discussing food in terms of quantification--calories, vitamins, and serving sizes. She also examines how organizations such as the USDA attempt to legislate a healthy diet by mandating quantities of food based on measurable nutrients, revealing the power of language to make meaning and influence social action.
"This is a fascinating rhetorical criticism and history of our cultural addiction to quantification as a means of communicating about food and eating." -- Kathleen LeBesco, coeditor of Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning
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Jessica J. Mudry is Assistant Professor of Science and Technical Communication at Concordia University.
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measured meals, new nutritional message, enumerated food, room calorimeter, experiment station scientists, quantitative discourse, new food guide, food guidance, numeric standards, secondary discourse, liberal diet, nutritive content Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Slow Food, United States, The Food Pyramid, Scaling the Pyramid, Reading Federal Nutrition Guides, French Paradox, Mediterranean Diet, Wilbur Atwater, Hatch Act, Basic Four, Select Foods, Food Portions, Recommended Daily Allowances, Walter Willett, Caroline Hunt, Connecticut Experiment Station, The Hassle-Free, Senate Select Committee, The Healthy Eating Index, Nutrition Facts, Harvard School of Public Health, Farmer's Diner, Washington Post, World War, Food Guide Pyramid Browse Sample Pages:
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