Mudry Measured Meals

Nutrition in America
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7914-9386-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mudry, Jessica J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction
Eating by Numbers: How Language Shapes Food and Eating

2. The Early History of American Nutrition Research: From Quality to Quantity

3. Reading Federal Nutrition Guides: Quantification as Communication Strategy

4. The Food Pyramid: Visualizing Quantification

5. Scaling the Pyramid: Criticisms of the USDA

6. Talking about Taste: Alternatives to a Discourse of Quantification

7. Conclusion

Rethinking Common Sense: Toward a Rhetoric of Eating Notes

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jessica J. Mudry is Assistant Professor of Science and Technical Communication at Concordia University.