Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory, Policies, Practices

In the second half of the nineteenth century, ways of thinking about food changed as chemists and physiologists identified nutrients and bodily needs and as urbanization, industrialization, and colonial encounters challenged traditional dietary customs and assumptions. Emerging as a reaction to concerns about industrial and military power, social welfare, and public health, the science of nutrition sought to define the norms and needs of variable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580465765
• ISBN13: 9781580465762
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"