1st Edition
Shifting Food Facts Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture
By Alissa Overend
Copyright 2021
144 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
144 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
144 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers a much-needed reframing of food discourse by presenting alternative ways of thinking about the changing politics of food, eating, and nutrition. It examines critical epistemological questions of how food knowledge comes to be shaped and why we see pendulum swings when it comes to the question of what to eat.
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Introduction: Food Facts in a Post-Truth Culture 1. Western Genealogies of Healthy Eating: From Humoural Medicine to Modern Nutritionism 2. Shifting Food Facts of Canada’s Food Guides, 1942–2019 3. Dairy: Beyond "Got" and "Not" Milk 4. Wheat: Global Staple, Modern Health Scourge 5. Meat: The False Divides between Veganism and Carnism. Conclusions: The Trouble with Singular Food Truths
Biography
Alissa Overend is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at MacEwan University. Her research in the areas of critical food, health, and nutrition studies questions the shaping of contemporary health and illness phenomena and the politics of knowledge therein.
