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健康狂人:美国的饮食斗士与慢性疾病幽灵

English | 2024 | ISBN: 1469683008 | Pages: 274 | EPUB | 756.36 KB

Travis A. Weisse tells a new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation's collective failure to lose weight. By exploring how the popularity of diets grew alongside patients' frustrations with the limitations and failures of the American healthcare system in the face of chronic disease, Weisse argues that millions of Americans sought "fad" diets—such as the notorious Atkins program which ushered in the low-carbohydrate craze—to wrest control of their health from pessimistic doctors and lifelong pharmaceutical regimens.

Drawing on novel archival sources and a wide variety of popular media, Weisse shows the lengths to which twentieth-century American dieters went to heal themselves outside the borders of orthodox medicine and the subsequent political and scientific backlash they received. Through colorful profiles of the leaders of four major diet movements, Health Freaks demonstrates that these diet gurus weren't shady snake oil salesmen preying on the vulnerable; rather, they were vocal champions for millions of frustrated Americans seeking longer, healthier lives.


特雷维斯·A·韦斯讲述了美国现代饮食史的新篇章,它超越了关于国家整体未能减肥的熟悉叙事。通过探索与慢性疾病面前美国医疗体系对限制和失败的患者满意度相比,饮食受欢迎的增长,韦斯认为数百万美国人寻求“流行”饮食——比如臭名昭著的阿特金斯计划, ushered in the low-carbohydrate craze—to wrest control of their health from悲观医生和终生药方疗程。

韦斯利用了一系列新颖的档案资料以及各种受欢迎媒体,他展示了二十世纪美国减肥者为了超越正统医学和随后的政治科学反扑所做出的努力。通过这些重大饮食运动领导者丰富多彩的传记,《健健身狂》证明这些饮食大师并不是在窥探脆弱群体的钱包的浑水摸鱼销售员;相反,他们成了数百万愤懑美国人追求更长、更健康生活的坚定拥护者。


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