#103 - Diet and the Disease of Civilization with Dr. Adrienne Rose Bitar

The first historical study of diet books, Dr Adrienne Rose
Bitar's book Diet and the Disease of Civilization examines how
four popular plans -- Paleo, biblical, primitive, and detox diets
-- reflect and shape our social world.


Bitar categorized 17,000 diet books based on their titles. All of
them, from Paleo to the “biblical diets” and even the first diet
book by William Banting, center around the conversation of who
are we, what do we eat, and why? The texts claim that we have
fallen as a people and we need to regain that “original health”
through diet.


About Adrienne
Adrienne Rose Bitar is a diet and food historian and recent
author of Diet and the Disease of Civilization. The first
historical study of diet books, Bitar's book examines how four
popular plans -- Paleo, biblical, primitive, and detox diets --
reflect and shape our social world. Previous food publications
include studies of competitive eating, food art, and the Paleo
diet. In the popular press, she has published on migrant child
farm labor, locavorism, and weight-gain diets.


Bitar earned her PhD from Stanford in 2016 and is currently a
Postdoctoral Associate in History at Cornell. Bitar's recent
research project is on fake meat and she teaches courses on food
studies and the history of health and fitness culture.


Website | Twitter | Book


Links mentioned


Adrienne's WIRED article: The Government's Role in the Rise
of Lab-Grown Meat

Body Kindness Episode 100: Diet Culture Exists Because We
Don’t Want to Die with Michelle Allison the Fat Nutritionist

Body Kindness Episode 85: Doing Harm – The Truth About How
Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed,
Misdiagnosed, and Sick with feminist author Maya Dusenbery

New York Times: What We Know About Diet and Weight Loss:
After decades of research, there are shockingly few firm
conclusions.



 


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