Measured meals : nutrition in America /
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| Author / Creator: | Mudry, Jessica J., 1974- |
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| Imprint: | Albany : SUNY Press, c2009. |
| Description: | xii, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7907099 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Eating by Numbers: How Language Shapes Food and Eating
- Chapter 1. The Early History of American Nutrition Research: From Quality to Quantity
- Chapter 2. Reading Rederal Nutrition Guides: Quantification as Communication Strategy
- Chapter 3. The Food Pyramid: Visualizing Quantification
- Chapter 4. Scaling the Pyramid: Criticisms of the USDA
- Chapter 5. Talking about Taste: Alternatives to a Discourse of Quantification
- Conclusion Rethinking Common Sense: Toward a Rhetoric of Eating
- Notes
- References
- Index
