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Empty pleasures : the story of artificial sweeteners from saccharin to Splenda / by Carolyn de la PenÌa.

By: Publication details: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 279 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780807834091 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 664/.5 22
LOC classification:
  • TP422 .P46 2010
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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