The industrial diet : the degradation of food and the struggle for healthy eating

Winson, Anthony. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780774825528 (trad pbk.) :
Physical Description: print
x, 340 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Between producers and eaters: shaping mass diets -- Discordant diets, unhealthy people -- From neolithic to capitalist diets -- From patent flour to Wheaties -- Pushing product for profit: early branding -- Speeding up the making of food -- The simplification of whole food -- Adulteration and the rise of pseudo foods -- The spatial colonization of the industrial diet: the supermarket -- Meals away from home: the health burden of restaurant chains -- The industrial diet goes global -- Transformative food movements and the struggle for healthy eating -- Case studies of a transformative food movement -- Toward a sustainable and ethical health-based dietary regime.