The US physician Bratman's remarkable observation that some individuals were becoming
highly obsessive about healthy eating that drives them into pathology lead him to coin the …

This paper examines how contemporary understandings of 'health'and 'care'are engaged
with and practiced by women with disordered eating. Based on findings from an Australian …

The trend for novel and exotic “superfoods” exemplifies the contemporary tendency to
idealize “primitive” food cultures as nutritional utopias. Based on critical textual and visual …

Background Poor dietary choices are a risk factor for non-communicable diseases. Young
adults have low levels of engagement towards their health and may not see the importance …

Language and food are universal to humankind. Language accomplishes more than a pure
exchange of information, and food caters for more than mere subsistence. Both represent …

This article examines the rise in the consumption of superfoods as a normative food trend
among affluent groups in the global North that has embedded itself in Western food culture …

The article looks at conceptions of science and expertise among lay proponents of the low-
carbohydrate high-fat diet in Finland. The research data consist of comments on a webpage …

Background Low-carbohydrate (LC) diets have gained substantial media coverage in many
Western countries. Little is, however, known about the characteristics of their followers …

Low-carbohydrate diets such as the Atkins Diet were especially popular in English-speaking
developed countries in the 1990s and 2000s. The popular low-carbohydrate literature …

The study analysed public debates on the association of milk fats, vegetable oils and
cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) between 1978 and 2013 in Finland, a country with a …