Empty pleasures : the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda /
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| Author / Creator: | Pe�a, Carolyn Thomas de la |
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010. |
| Description: | 279 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8151909 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. False Scarlet
- Healthful Sugar vs. Adulterous Saccharin in the Early Twentieth Century
- Chapter 2. Alchemic Ally
- Women's Creativity and Control in Saccharin and Cyclamates
- Chapter 3. Diet Men
- The Food-Pharma Origins of Artificially Sweetened Products
- Chapter 4. Prosperity Stomachs and Prosperous Women
- Diet Entrepreneurs
- Chapter 5. Saccharin Rebels
- The Right to Risky Pleasure in 1977
- Chapter 6. NutraSweet Nation
- Profit, Peril, and the Promise of a Free Lunch
- Conclusion: Splenda, Sugar, and What Mother Nature Intended
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
