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Proteins, Pathologies and Politics: Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century

Proteins, Pathologies and Politics: Dietary Innovation and Disease from the Nineteenth Century

Gentilcore, David
Smith, Matthew

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Series: Criminal Practice

Medical ReferenceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1350170208
ISBN13: 9781350170209
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 25 2020
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Proteins, Pathologies and Politics presents an international and historical approach to dietary change and health, contrasting current concerns with how issues such as diabetes, cancer, vitamins, sugar and fat, and food allergies were perceived in the 19th and 20th centuries. Though what we eat and what we shouldn't eat has become a topic of increased scrutiny in the current century, the link between dietary innovation and health/disease is not a new one. From new fads in foodstuffs, through developments in manufacturing and production processes, to the inclusion of additives and evolving agricultural practices changing diet, changes often promised better health only to become associated with the opposite.

With contributors including Peter Scholliers, Francesco Buscemi, Clare Gordon Bettencourt, and Kirsten Gardner, this collection comprises the best scholarship on how we have perceived diet to affect health. The chapters consider:

- the politics and economics of dietary change

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