A healthy diet [Elektronisk resurs] british newspaper narratives in the 1920s
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Lyon, Phil (författare)
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Kautto, Ethel, 1966- (författare)
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Umeå universitet Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten (utgivare)
- Publicerad: Routledge, 2022
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: History of Retailing and Consumption. - 2373-518X.
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- The early years of twentieth-century Britain were a transitional period for the way that food was understood. Diet adequacy was now being increasingly thought of as not simply a matter of the quantity of food but the qualities that food needed to have to sustain optimum health. A number of ‘fad diet’ books were circulating and proposed what readers should eat or avoid, and even how to eat. Science, meanwhile, was making progress with the identification of vitamins and these were added to the discourse. Newspapers in the 1920s had an important communication role in the struggle to separate dietary fact from fiction and this study examines how they represented ideas to their readers. Rather than giving a voice to ‘fad diets’, press stories endorsed the ‘common sense’ of normal varied diets although these could be socially and economically variable. Using fad ridicule and other techniques, as well as the reported opinion from well-known medical figures, newspapers emerge as responsible intermediaries in the transition.
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- Humanities and the Arts (hsv)
- History and Archaeology (hsv)
- History (hsv)
- Humaniora och konst (hsv)
- Historia och arkeologi (hsv)
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- government publication (marcgt)
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- 1920s
- British newspapers
- fad diets
- vitamins
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History of Retailing and Consumption