The American Way of Eating - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Way of Eating write by Tracie McMillan. This book was released on 2012-02-21. The American Way of Eating available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A journalist traces her 2009 immersion into the national food system to explore how working-class Americans can afford to eat as they should, describing how she worked as a farm laborer, Wal-Mart grocery clerk, and Applebee's expediter while living within the means of each job.
Eating Right in America
Eating Right in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eating Right in America write by Charlotte Biltekoff. This book was released on 2013-10-02. Eating Right in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eating Right in America is a powerful critique of dietary reform in the United States from the late nineteenth-century emergence of nutritional science through the contemporary alternative food movement and campaign against obesity. Charlotte Biltekoff analyzes the discourses of dietary reform, including the writings of reformers, as well as the materials they created to bring their messages to the public. She shows that while the primary aim may be to improve health, the process of teaching people to "eat right" in the U.S. inevitably involves shaping certain kinds of subjects and citizens, and shoring up the identity and social boundaries of the ever-threatened American middle class. Without discounting the pleasures of food or the value of wellness, Biltekoff advocates a critical reappraisal of our obsession with diet as a proxy for health. Based on her understanding of the history of dietary reform, she argues that talk about "eating right" in America too often obscures structural and environmental stresses and constraints, while naturalizing the dubious redefinition of health as an individual responsibility and imperative.
Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols
Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols write by Institute of Medicine. This book was released on 2012-01-30. Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the past decade, tremendous growth has occurred in the use of nutrition symbols and rating systems designed to summarize key nutritional aspects and characteristics of food products. These symbols and the systems that underlie them have become known as front-of-package (FOP) nutrition rating systems and symbols, even though the symbols themselves can be found anywhere on the front of a food package or on a retail shelf tag. Though not regulated and inconsistent in format, content, and criteria, FOP systems and symbols have the potential to provide useful guidance to consumers as well as maximize effectiveness. As a result, Congress directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to undertake a study with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to examine and provide recommendations regarding FOP nutrition rating systems and symbols. The study was completed in two phases. Phase I focused primarily on the nutrition criteria underlying FOP systems. Phase II builds on the results of Phase I while focusing on aspects related to consumer understanding and behavior related to the development of a standardized FOP system. Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols focuses on Phase II of the study. The report addresses the potential benefits of a single, standardized front-label food guidance system regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, assesses which icons are most effective with consumer audiences, and considers the systems/icons that best promote health and how to maximize their use.
A Revolution in Eating
A Revolution in Eating - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Revolution in Eating write by James E. McWilliams. This book was released on 2005. A Revolution in Eating available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History of food in the United States.
Modern Food, Moral Food
Modern Food, Moral Food - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Food, Moral Food write by Helen Zoe Veit. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Modern Food, Moral Food available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing Americans toward a newly scientific approach to diet. Food faddists were rewriting the most basic rules surrounding eating, while reformers were working to reshape the diets of immigrants and the poor. And by the time of World War I, the country's first international aid program was bringing moral advice about food conservation into kitchens around the country. In Modern Food, Moral Food, Helen Zoe Veit argues that the twentieth-century food revolution was fueled by a powerful conviction that Americans had a moral obligation to use self-discipline and reason, rather than taste and tradition, in choosing what to eat. Veit weaves together cultural history and the history of science to bring readers into the strange and complex world of the American Progressive Era. The era's emphasis on science and self-control left a profound mark on American eating, one that remains today in everything from the ubiquity of science-based dietary advice to the tenacious idealization of thinness.
