Health Freaks (eBook)

America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness

Travis A. Weisse (Autor)

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2024
274 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-8301-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Travis A. Weisse tells a new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation's collective failure to lose weight. By exploring how the popularity of diets grew alongside patients' frustrations with the limitations and failures of the American healthcare system in the face of chronic disease, Weisse argues that millions of Americans sought fad diets-such as the notorious Atkins program which ushered in the low-carbohydrate craze-to wrest control of their health from pessimistic doctors and lifelong pharmaceutical regimens. Drawing on novel archival sources and a wide variety of popular media, Weisse shows the lengths to which twentieth-century American dieters went to heal themselves outside the borders of orthodox medicine and the subsequent political and scientific backlash they received. Through colorful profiles of the leaders of four major diet movements, Health Freaks demonstrates that these diet gurus weren't shady snake oil salesmen preying on the vulnerable; rather, they were vocal champions for millions of frustrated Americans seeking longer, healthier lives.

Autor

Travis A. Weisse is visiting assistant professor at New Mexico State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 1 graph
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Ernährung / Diät / Fasten
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 20th century American cultural history • Alternative treatments for Chronic Illness • Alvenia Fulton • American Fad Diets • American Lifestyle and Fitness Programs • atkins diet • Black veganism • Cancer • Chronic Disease • Diabetes • Dick Gregory • diet culture • Diet guru • fad diets • Food Choice • Food Faddism • Frederick Stare • George Ohsawa • Health • Heart disease • History of Alternative Medicine • History of American vegetarianism • History of Complementary Medicine • Industrial Agriculture • longevity diet • Low Carb Diet • low fat diet • macrobiotic diet • medical quackery • Medicine • Michio Kushi • Nathan Pritikin • natural food movement • Nutrition • Pritikin diet • Robert C. Atkins • weight loss • whole foods plant based diet • Zen Macrobiotics
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-8301-6 / 1469683016
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-8301-0 / 9781469683010