Health freaks: america's diet champions and the specter of chronic illness
Auteur :
Weisse, Travis A.
Éditeur :
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN :
9781469682990
Date de publication :
3 sept. 2024
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 cm
Format :
Cloth
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
A new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation’s collective failure to lose weight. Weisse argues that millions sought “fad†diets—such as the Atkins program which ushered in the low-carbohydrate craze—to wrest control of their health from pessimistic doctors and lifelong pharmaceutical regimens.