Title:
Diets and dieting : a cultural encyclopedia
Author:
Gilman, Sander L.
ISBN:
9780415801935
Personal Author:
Edition:
[Pbk. ed.]
Publication Information:
New York ; London : Routledge, 2009, 2008.
Physical Description:
xii, 308 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 2008.
Contents:
Hauser, Gayelord -- Hay, William -- Homeostasis -- Hopkins, Frederick Gowland -- Hormone -- Hormones used in dieting -- Hornby, Lesley (Twiggy) -- Ibn Sina (Avicenna) -- Imes-Jackson, Mo'Nique -- Infectobesity -- Internet -- Israeli, Isaac ben Salomon -- Jews -- Johnson, Samuel -- Kellogg, John Harvey -- Kneipp, Sebastian -- LaLanne, Jack -- Lambert, Daniel -- Leibel, Rudolph -- Lessius, Leonard -- Lindlahr, Henry -- Linn, Robert -- Literature and fat bodies -- Low-fat and fat-free foods -- Luther, Martin -- Macfadden, Bernarr -- McGraw, Phil (Dr. Phil) -- Manheim, Camryn -- Marcé, Louis-Victor -- Mazel, Judy -- Media -- Medical use of dieting -- Medieval diets -- Men -- Metabolism -- Metcalfe, William -- Milk -- Monroe, Marilyn -- Morton, Richard -- Murray, George -- Natural man -- Nidetch, Jean -- Noorden, Carl von -- Obesity epidemic -- Obsessive compulsive disorders -- Old age and obesity -- Ornish, Dean -- Paleolithic diet -- Peters, LuLu Hunt -- Pets -- Phytochemicals -- Post, C.W. -- Pregnancy -- Pritikin, Nathan -- Processed foods -- Professionalization of dieting -- Psychotherapy and weight change -- Religion and dieting -- Risks associated with dieting -- Roman medicine and dieting -- Russell, Lillian -- Scales and public weighing -- Schwarzenegger, Arnold -- Self-help -- Sex -- Sexual orientation -- Sigler, Jamie Lynn -- Simmons, Richard -- Sinclair, Upton -- Smoking -- Socioeconomic status -- Southern fat -- Sports -- Spurlock, Morgan -- Stress -- Sugar busters -- Sweeteners -- Taft, William Howard -- Tarnower, Herman -- Thomson, Samuel -- Trall, Russell -- Van Helmont, Johannes -- Vegetarianism -- Very-low-calorie diets -- Weight gain -- Wesley, John -- White, Ellen G. -- Wigmore, Ann -- William the Conqueror -- Winfrey, Oprah -- Zone diet.
Abstract:
"Diets and dieting have concerned - and sometimes obsessed - human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them is the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved heath, spiritual harmony with the universe, and ethical codes of existence. An A-Z encyclopedia, this reference work spans many periods and cultures as the cultural and medical historian Sander Gilman lays out the history of diets and dieting in a series of articles." "This volume is a reference tool presenting the historical, popular, and scientific context for diets and dieting from the ancient world to the present. The entries range from biography to large survey essays, which cover the historical and cultural context for contemporary dieting culture and celebrity within the longer historical view, and across cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
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