Food Diary

Thanks, Suzanne, I'll definitely check it out! I'll also add it to our ever growing bibliography on the history of nutrition: https://www.zotero.org/groups/h-nutrition/items.

Not to tout my own horn, but in the hopes it would be helpful, I just published a paper on the origins and history of the net weight amendment on mandatory nutrition labeling its relation to the current Nutrition Facts panel.

“Proscribing Deception: The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling,” in Setting Standards: The History and Politics of Nutritional Theories and Practices, 1890-1930, Elizabeth Neswald and David Smith, eds. (New York: University of Rochester Press, 2016).

Thanks, Adele, that sounds like a great exercise!

I just did a "rhetoric of food packaging" with a group at NC's Governor's School recently. I distributed some food packages (saved the interesting ones from recycling) and had them work through what they thought they were being persuaded of--besides to buy the food, we just took that most obvious one off the table--and the means of persuasion. I also asked why this means of persuasion was being employed, what assumptions were involved, and what authorities and identities were being called forth.