Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consumer Culture

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.01.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Lesson Plans
  5. Endnotes
  6. Bibliography
  7. Appendix

Food Choice: How the ingredients on food packaging influence the foods we eat

Laura Turner

Published September 2012

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Bibliography

Brackett, Elizabeth. "PBS NewsHour | PBS." Low Carb Craze. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ (accessed August 1, 2012).

Brosius, Jeanni. "5 Things You Need to Know About Transfat ." www.livestrong.com. www.livestrong.com/article/3710-need-trans-fat/ (accessed August 1, 2012).

Brownell, Kelly D., and Katherine Battle Horgen. Food fight: the inside story of the food industry, America's obesity crisis, and what we can do about it. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 2004.

This is an easy to read book written by a Yale professor who is leading the way on the fight against obesity by lobbying for government regulation on sugar and soda consumption.

Cooper, Ann, and Lisa M. Holmes. Bitter harvest: a chef's perspective on the hidden dangers in the foods we eat and what you can do about it. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Bitter Harvest is written by Ann Cooper who is friends with Alice Waters. The two of

them have been instrumental in bringing local, seasonal food to schools. Ann is based out of Berkeley, California and works in the school lunch program for Berkeley Unified.

Mercola, Joseph, and Kendra Degen Pearsall. Sweet deception: why Splenda®, Nutrasweet®, and the FDA may be hazardous to your health. Nashville, TN: Nelson Books, 2006.

This book has a lot of information on the FDA and its role in the controversy over how chemically engineered foods become approved by the FDA.

Mintz, Sidney Wilfred. Tasting food, tasting freedom: excursions into eating, culture, and the past. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Neveau , Mark J. . "Brain Food." Nutrition Dynamics. https://nutri-dyn.com/images/LinkedPDFs/BrainFood.pdf (accessed August 1, 2012).

Pollan, Michael. In defense of food: an eater's manifesto. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.

Stein, Joel . "The Low-Carb Diet Craze." Time.com. http://www.timemagazine.com (accessed August 1, 2012).

Wandel , Margareta. "Food labeling from a consumer perspective." British Food Journal 99, no. 6 (1997): 212-219.

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