Canned Food History: A Conversation with Anna Zeide Emily Contois, Nursing Clio Science & Medicine Recently, I had my students in Food in American Society and Culture try their hand at drafting dietary guidelines. While every group recommended consuming fruits and vegetables, one group specifically called...
The Cultural Logic of Calories and Body Types Margot Finn Arts & Culture, Science & Medicine We were promised calorie labels. New York City has required them in chain restaurants since 2008 and California since 2009, but the Affordable Care Act mandated them nationwide. In April 2016, the FDA issued a...
Real Men & Real Food: The Cultural Politics of Male Weight Loss Emily Contois, Nursing Clio Science & Medicine This essay originally appeared on Nursing Clio. When Weight Watchers first launched an online program “customized just for guys” in 2007, one of their advertisements proclaimed, “Real men don’t...
The Pre-History of the Paleo Diet Agnes Arnold-Forster Arts & Culture Dr. Loren Cordain describes himself as the “world’s foremost authority on the evolutionary basis of diet and disease” and as “one of the world’s leading experts on the natural human diet of our Stone...
