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" …we as a society owe it to ourselves to engage in a critical reappraisal of the results of our obsession with diet as a proxy for health. I am not sure that we are talking about the health that we really want when we talk about eating habits; diet talk too often obscures structural and environmental stresses, constraints, exposures, and inequities, while naturalizing the dubious redefinition of health as an individual responsibility and imperative. "

Charlotte Biltekoff , Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health


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Charlotte Biltekoff quote : …we as a society owe it to ourselves to engage in a critical reappraisal of the results of our obsession with diet as a proxy for health. I am not sure that we are talking about the health that we really want when we talk about eating habits; diet talk too often obscures structural and environmental stresses, constraints, exposures, and inequities, while naturalizing the dubious redefinition of health as an individual responsibility and imperative.