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

Author/creator Peña, Carolyn Thomas de la.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
Description279 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010006638
ISBN9780807834091 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807834092 (cloth : alk. paper)

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