History 2185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Underweight, Mantra
20 Apr 2016
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Found that the working class ate the wrong things. People were eating the wrong things and the wrong amounts, especially poor people. A proper balanced can be achieved through social regulation. Don"t want a population that is unhealthy, want a healthy, efficient and productive population. Food and the calorie were part of the mobilization. Officials can use the calorie to identify rations and . Watching calories became a patriotic duty: because eating calories was undermining the war effort. Began to learn to count calories the american way. The intent was to use data for where food was eaten most. Can use this data to carve out . China was always going to be a good market because they were smarter. Early 20th century, new ideal was beginning to take over the states. Thinness was not a body that women aspired to be because it meant that you didn"t have food to eat.
