Empty pleasures : the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peña, Carolyn Thomas de la
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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.