Diet and the Disease of Civilization Bitar Adrienne Rose Paperback
Diet and the Disease of Civilization Bitar Adrienne Rose Paperback Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Diet and the Disease…
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Diet and the Disease of Civilization Bitar Adrienne Rose Paperback
Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it's not calories--but concepts--that should be counted?Cultural critic Adrienne Rose Bitar reveals how four popular diets retell the "Fall of Man" as the narrative backbone for our national consciousness. Yet these books don't just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who Americans are and how we should live.
Intensifying the moral panic of the obesity epidemic, they depict civilization itself as a disease and offer diet as the one true cure.Bitar reads each diet--the Paleo Diet, the Garden of Eden Diet, the Pacific Island Diet, the detoxification or detox diet--as both myth and manual, a story with side
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