Diet and Disease: A History of Health Innovatio. Gentilcore, Smith**

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Explore the fascinating historical evolution of dietary innovation and its impact on health and disease. "Proteins, Pathologies and Politics" offers an international and historical perspective, contrasting contemporary concerns about diet with perceptions from the 19th and 20th centuries. Discover how changes in food manufacturing, agricultural practices, and new fads in foodstuffs have historically been linked to health outcomes, sometimes promising better health only to be associated with the opposite. This collection features leading scholarship examining: - The politics and economics driving dietary change. - The key figures involved in dietary innovation and societal responses. - The extent to which dietary health is a cultural construct shaped by history. This book is a valuable resource for students of history, food history, nutrition science, politics, and sociology, offering a varied and insightful study of how our diets have been influenced by perceptions of health. Product Summary: Proteins, Pathologies and Politics, Hardcover, English, 264 pages, ISBN 9781350056862, published 2018 by Bloomsbury Academic, written by David Gentilcore and Matthew Smith.