AMST 1154 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Jean Nidetch, Sucralose, Nutritionism
23 Apr 2017
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Final release on fri --- due tues may 9,2017 at 5 pm. Artificial sweetener the politics of taste: an introductory case study: way for pharmaceutical companies to enter the food supply, financially profitable for women"s magazines and diet entrepreneurs. Increase production and consumption of sweetened sodas and beverages: provide a technological fix so that we can define food consumption in excess of calories need for nutrition and survival. Are they healthy: not the target question, different answers for different time periods, conditions, groups, complicated, do they make us crave more sweets, part of shift to culture of numbers & ingredient calculations. Over time the saccharin story grew more complicated; while the substance remined unchanged, perceptions of it have undergone almost alchemical shifts. In its 130-year history saccharin has been laboratory accidents, a wonder drug, a dangerous carcinogen, and a consumer cause celebre. Jesse hicks, the pursuit of sweet: a history of saccharin .
