A network for those interested in the history of nutrition and related fields. This network is intended for the growing number of scholars, teachers, documentary filmmakers, and museum and library professionals engaged with the history of nutrition in any time period or region.
Check out this new post on Paracelsian nutrition from The Recipes Project:
Jennifer Park, "Soul Food: Paracelsian Spiritual Mummy and the Virtues of Ingredients," The Recipes Project (2 November 2017). http://recipes.hypotheses.org/10069
It is (apparently) calorie week!
Margot Finn, "The Cultural Logic of Calories and Body Types," Nursing Clio (2 November 2017). https://nursingclio.org/2017/11/02/the-cultural-logic-of-calories-and-body-types/
Nina Mackert, "What Calories Do," Remedia (1 November 2017). https://remedianetwork.net/2017/11/01/what-calories-do/
H-Nutrition readers may find the following article of interest:
Rebecca Earle, "Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness," History Workshop Journal 84 (2017): 170-193. https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbx046/4103072
While this is article is not about history per se, it does nicely articulate some of the challenges involved in doing nutrition research and the consequences of retracted findings, which may be of interest to some H-Nutrition members.
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