Measured Meals: Nutrition in America

Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.

2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

As nutritional studies proliferate, producing more and more knowledge about the connection between diet and health, Americans seem increasingly confused about what to eat to stay healthy. In Measured Meals, Jessica J. Mudry looks at the language used in the United States to communicate about health and nutrition, and reveals its effects on reframin...