Weight changes are accompanied by imbalances between calorie intake and expenditure.
This fact is often misinterpreted to suggest that obesity is caused by gluttony and sloth and …

One of the central tenets in obesity prevention and management is caloric restriction. This
perspective presents salient features of how calories and energy balance matter, also called …

Calorie-focused policies, such as calorie menu labeling, seem to result in minor shifts
toward healthier choices and public health improvement. This paper discusses the (lack of) …

What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being is a
history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern …

Although the scientific origins of the calorie date back to the 1820s, calorie counting for
weight loss only became popular in the late 1910s and 1920s. Placing this development in …

This article follows American milk powder through its many iterations and afterlives: as
domestic health food, militarized technology in Asia and its diaspora, and as a symbol of …

In “The Making of the American Calorie and the Metabolic Metrics of Empire,” Athia
Choudhury develops a far-reaching critical genealogy of caloric biocitizenship that reframes …

This dissertation investigates how agricultural animal science research influenced the
implementation of population-level policies around human mass feeding and nutrition in the …

In recent years, the number of obese people in China has increased rapidly, which seriously
affects the quality of civil health. In addition to the improvement of living habits, effective …

The history of federal dietary advice in America is over a century long, and many historians
have evaluated its transformation as it relates to the economy, war, and agriculture …