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Book The New Glutton Or Epicure

Download or read book The New Glutton Or Epicure written by Horace Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fresh

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  • Author : Susanne Freidberg
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2010-10-01
  • ISBN : 0674263626
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book Fresh written by Susanne Freidberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That rosy tomato perched on your plate in December is at the end of a great journey—not just over land and sea, but across a vast and varied cultural history. This is the territory charted in Fresh. Opening the door of an ordinary refrigerator, it tells the curious story of the quality stored inside: freshness. We want fresh foods to keep us healthy, and to connect us to nature and community. We also want them convenient, pretty, and cheap. Fresh traces our paradoxical hunger to its roots in the rise of mass consumption, when freshness seemed both proof of and an antidote to progress. Susanne Freidberg begins with refrigeration, a trend as controversial at the turn of the twentieth century as genetically modified crops are today. Consumers blamed cold storage for high prices and rotten eggs but, ultimately, aggressive marketing, advances in technology, and new ideas about health and hygiene overcame this distrust. Freidberg then takes six common foods from the refrigerator to discover what each has to say about our notions of freshness. Fruit, for instance, shows why beauty trumped taste at a surprisingly early date. In the case of fish, we see how the value of a living, quivering catch has ironically hastened the death of species. And of all supermarket staples, why has milk remained the most stubbornly local? Local livelihoods; global trade; the politics of taste, community, and environmental change: all enter into this lively, surprising, yet sobering tale about the nature and cost of our hunger for freshness.

Book Dietotherapy v  3

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  • Author : William Edward Fitch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 964 pages

Download or read book Dietotherapy v 3 written by William Edward Fitch and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quacks

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  • Author : S. D. Tucker
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2018-11-15
  • ISBN : 1445671824
  • Pages : 487 pages

Download or read book Quacks written by S. D. Tucker and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raucous history of medicine's more bizarre attempts to explain and preserve the human body. Prepare to feel queasy.

Book Dietotherapy

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  • Author : William Edward Fitch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 958 pages

Download or read book Dietotherapy written by William Edward Fitch and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Queer Oz

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  • Author : Tison Pugh
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2023-04-21
  • ISBN : 1496845331
  • Pages : 159 pages

Download or read book Queer Oz written by Tison Pugh and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regardless of his own sexual orientation, L. Frank Baum’s fictions revel in queer, trans, and other transgressive themes. Baum’s life in the late 1800s and early 1900s coincided with the rise of sexology in the Western world, as a cascade of studies heightened awareness of the complexity of human sexuality. His years of productivity also coincided with the rise of children’s literature as a unique field of artistic creation. Best known for his Oz series, Baum produced a staggering number of children’s and juvenile book series under male and female pseudonyms, including the Boy Fortune Hunters series, the Aunt Jane’s Nieces series, and the Mary Louise series, along with many miscellaneous tales for young readers. Baum envisioned his fantasy works as progressive fictions, aspiring to create in the Oz series “a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.” In line with these progressive aspirations, his works are often sexually progressive as well, with surprisingly queer and trans touches that reject the standard fairy-tale narrative path toward love and marriage. From Ozma of Oz’s backstory as a boy named Tip to the genderless character Chick the Cherub, from the homosocial adventures of his Boy Fortune Hunters to the determined rejection of romance for Aunt Jane’s Nieces, Queer Oz: L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender shows how Baum utilized the freedoms of children’s literature, in its carnivalesque celebration of a world turned upside-down, to reimagine the meanings of gender and sexuality in early twentieth-century America and to re-envision them for the future.

Book The Publishers  Circular and Booksellers  Record

Download or read book The Publishers Circular and Booksellers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illustrated Catalogue of Books  Standard and Holiday

Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of Books Standard and Holiday written by McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fat History

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  • Author : Peter N. Stearns
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 1997-05
  • ISBN : 0814780695
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Fat History written by Peter N. Stearns and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History Explores the meaning of fat and anti-fat in modern Western society The modern struggle against fat cuts deeply and pervasively into American culture, as evidenced by the compulsion to stay thin, or at least to profess a desire to become thin. Dieting, weight consciousness and widespread hostility to obesity form one of the fundamental themes of modern life in countries around the world. Yet, for example, while the French are renowned for their delight in all things gustatory, they are significantly trimmer and less diet-obsessed than Americans. Fat History explores the meaning of fat and anti-fat in modern Western society, focusing on the uniquely moral component of dieting in America. Tracing how standards of beauty and physical morality have been radically transformed over the past century in the United States and France, Peter N. Stearns illustrates how the contemporary obsession with fat arose in tandem with the dramatic growth in consumer culture, women's increasing equality, and changes in women's sexual and maternal roles. Contrary to popular belief, fashion and nutrition have played only a secondary role in spurring the American aversion to fat, while the French distaste for obesity can be traced to different origins altogether. Filled with narrative anecdotes and rooted in Stearns' trademark use of engaging original sources—from Ebony and Gourmet to The Journal of the American Medical Association and popularized accounts of French doctors—Fat History explores fat's transformation from a symbol of health and well-being to a sign of moral, psychological, and physical disorder.

Book The Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bookseller

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Good Health

Download or read book Good Health written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Simple and Natural Way

Download or read book The Simple and Natural Way written by Shailaja Prashant Kedari and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Simple and Natural Way offers a practical and simple guide to perfect weight, radiant health, and, eventually, a transformed life. The book is about something that most of us know in theory but very few practice; it focuses on Fletcherism, in theory and in practice. The theory is supported by the work of the American health guru Horace Fletcher (18491919), including various experiments of strength and endurance conducted on him and several Fletcherites before and after him. The practice is based on my own experience and results with Fletcherism. This book is for all those who are struggling with weight issuesthe underweights and the overweights. Fletcherism works like magic. On a comparative analysis, this practice is easier to adopt than any of the diet or exercise routines. This raises its acceptance quotient even with hard core foodies. It is for all those who are struggling with any health issue, whether directly or indirectly connected with incorrect eating and nutrition, and for all those who wish to live life to fullest possible physical potential in terms of their strength, endurance and physical health. This guide points out all the massive and unbelievable benefits of Fletcherising, which are not just confined to your body but also reach your mind. The practice can help quit lifelong addictions, cravings, and even unnatural walking, breathing and sleeping habits. It can transform your lifeeven if you dont believe it can! When you align even one part of your life to natures ways (through Fletcherism), every other aspect follows harmoniously. Fletcherism has changed author Shailaja Kedaris life in ways she couldnt have imagined. With the help of this book, you can experience the same or even more miraculous changes in your life.

Book Fear of Food

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  • Author : Harvey Levenstein
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-03-08
  • ISBN : 0226473740
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Fear of Food written by Harvey Levenstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These include Nobel Prize-winner Eli Metchnikoff, who advised that yogurt would enable people to live to be 140, and Elmer McCollum, the "discoverer" of vitamins, who tailored his warnings about vitamin deficiencies to suit the food producers who funded him. Levenstein also highlights how large food companies have taken advantage of these concerns by marketing their products to combat the fear of the moment. Such examples include the co-opting of the "natural foods" movement, which grew out of the belief that inhabitants of a remote Himalayan Shangri-la enjoyed remarkable health by avoiding the very kinds of processed food these corporations produced, and the physiologist Ancel Keys, originator of the Mediterranean Diet, who provided the basis for a powerful coalition of scientists, doctors, food producers, and others to convince Americans that high-fat foods were deadly.

Book The Waste Fix

Download or read book The Waste Fix written by William G. Little and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This book explores the philosophical, social, and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America's obsession with eliminating waste. Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture, William Little traces the way this obsession finds expression in powerful social forces (e.g., the drive to consume conspicuously; the Progressive-era campaign to manage scientifically; the current demand to "reduce, reuse, recycle"), and shows how such forces are governed by an idealism that links proper treatment of waste with the promise of salvation.

Book The Century

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 986 pages

Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: