Diet and the disease of civilization / Adrienne Rose Bitar.

Diet and the disease of civilization / Adrienne Rose Bitar.

9780813589640 (paperback)
0813589649 (paperback)
9780813589657 (hardcover)
0813589657 (hardcover)

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

English

vii, 234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

RA784 .B546 2018

613.2

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.

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