Empty pleasures : the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda / Carolyn de la Peña.

  • Peña, Carolyn Thomas de la.
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[2010], ©2010
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Publication/Creation

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010], ©2010.

Physical description

279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

False scarlet : healthful sugar vs. adulterous saccharin in the early twentieth century -- Alchemic ally : women's creativity and control in saccharin and cyclamates -- Diet men : the food-pharma origins of artificially sweetened products -- Prosperity stomachs and prosperous women : diet entrepreneurs -- Saccharin rebels : the right to risky pleasure in 1977 -- Nutrasweet nation : profit, peril, and the promise of a free lunch -- Conclusion : Splenda, sugar, and what mother nature intended.

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  • 9780807834091
  • 0807834092