Selling the “Inca superfood”: Nutritional primitivism in superfoods books and maca marketing

J Loyer, C Knight - Food, Culture & Society, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

“We can't go back a hundred million years” Low-carbohydrate dieters' responses to nutritional primitivism

C Knight - Food, Culture & Society, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

“Most people are simply not designed to eat pasta”: evolutionary explanations for obesity in the low-carbohydrate diet movement

C Knight - Public Understanding of Science, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Low-carbohydrate diets, notably the Atkins Diet, were particularly popular in Britain and
North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s. On the basis of a discourse analysis of …

Indigenous nutrition research and the low-carbohydrate diet movement: Explaining obesity and diabetes in Protein Power

C Knight - Continuum, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Low-carbohydrate diets were particularly popular in English-speaking Western countries in
the late 1990s and early 2000s. Based on a critical analysis of the bestselling low …

'If You're Not Allowed to Have Rice, What do you have with your Curry?': Nostalgia and Tradition in Low-Carbohydrate Diet Discourse and Practice

C Knight - Sociological Research Online, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Low-carbohydrate diets, notably the Atkins Diet, were particularly popular in Britain and
North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This paper approaches the low …

[PDF][PDF] Balanced diets: analyzing restrictive eurocentrism in nutrition standards

S Khanna - Int J Soc Sci Econ Res, 2020 - ijsser.org
The foundations of nutrition science and the conception of dietary perfection have been
fundamentally based on Eurocentric ideals, colonization and a lack of acknowledgment of …

Interplay of authority and expertise in online self-improvement communities

TJM Squirrell - 2020 - era.ed.ac.uk
In online environments, users who wish to learn anything face several problems. Other users
are usually anonymous or pseudonymous, information is plentiful and its quality variable …

[图书][B] Ontologies and Natures: Knowledge about Health in Visual Culture

MFG Rodriguez - 2022 - books.google.com
In Ontologies and Natures: Knowledge about Health in Visual Culture, Fernando Gonzalez
Rodriguez argues that visual culture offers insights into how societies perceive the role of …

[引用][C] The social lives of superfoods

J Loyer - 2016