{"product_id":"diet-and-the-disease-of-adrienne-rose-bitar-9780813589657","title":"Diet and the Disease of Civilization","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Yet these books don't just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who Americans are and how we should live. \u003ci\u003eDiet and the Disease of Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it's not calories--but concepts--that should be counted?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCultural critic Adrienne Rose Bitar reveals how four popular diets retell the \"Fall of Man\" as the narrative backbone for our national consciousness. Intensifying the moral panic of the obesity epidemic, they depict civilization itself as a disease and offer diet as the one true cure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBitar reads each diet--the Paleo Diet, the Garden of Eden Diet, the Pacific Island Diet, the detoxification or detox diet--as both myth and manual, a story with side effects shaping social movements, driving industry, and constructing fundamental ideas about sickness and health. \u003ci\u003eDiet and the Disease of Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e unearths the ways in which diet books are actually utopian manifestos not just for better bodies, but also for a healthier society and a more perfect world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adrienne Rose Bitar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813589657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813589657\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 7.79w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2018","brand":"Adrienne Rose Bitar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086911353087,"sku":"9780813589657","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_61a72332-a5d2-4f5a-980c-10e23fbc53cf.jpg?v=1769097279","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/diet-and-the-disease-of-adrienne-rose-bitar-9780813589657","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}