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Diet and the disease of civilization

Author

Bitar, Adrienne Rose, 1986- author.

Title

Diet and the disease of civilization / Adrienne Rose Bitar.

Format

Book

Published

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018] ©2018

Description

vii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Paleolithic diets and the caveman utopia
• Devotional diets and the American Eden
• Pacific Islands diets and the paradise paradox
• Detoxification diets and concepts of a toxic modernity.

Summary

"Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Yet these books don't just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who Americans are and how we should live. Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it's not calories--but concepts--that should be counted? Cultural critic Adrienne Rose Bitar reveals how four popular diets retell the "Fall of Man" as the narrative backbone for our national consciousness. Intensifying the moral panic of the obesity epidemic, they depict civilization itself as a disease and offer diet as the one true cure"-- Publisher description.

Subject headings

Diet. Nutrition--Social aspects.

Medical subjects

Diet--psychology. Diet Therapy--psychology. Social Conditions. United States.

ISBN

9780813589657 (cloth ; alk. paper) 0813589657 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780813589640 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 0813589649 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780813589664 (epub) 9780813589688 (Web PDF)

Standard Identifier

13994588