Measured Meals: Nutrition in America

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Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction Eating by Numbers: How Language Shapes Food and Eating	p. 1
The Early History of American Nutrition Research: From Quality to Quantity	p. 21
Reading Federal Nutrition Guides: Quantification as Communication Strategy	p. 47
The Food Pyramid: Visualizing Quantification	p. 77
Scaling the Pyramid: Criticisms of the USDA	p. 105
Talking about Taste: Alternatives to a Discourse of Quantification	p. 137
Conclusion Rethinking Common Sense: Toward a Rhetoric of Eating	p. 169
Notes	p. 179
References	p. 191
Index	p. 207
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