Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating (Food Controversies) - Softcover

Baumgarthuber, Christine

 
9781789147636: Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating (Food Controversies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1789147638 ISBN 13: 9781789147636
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A sober engagement with the diverse meanings of intermittent fasting in human culture.
 
Fasting from food is a controversial, dangerous, and yet utterly normal human practice. In Why Fast?, Christine Baumgarthuber engages our fascination with restrictive eating in cultural history. If fasting offers few health benefits, why do people fast? Why have we always fasted? Does fasting speak to something deep and immutable within us? Why are our bodies so well adapted to intermittent fasting? And, what might this ancient, ascetic ritual offer us today? Thoughtful and considered, Why Fast? is a sober reconsideration of a contentious practice.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christine Baumgarthuber is the creator of The Austerity Kitchen, a one-of-a-kind culinary history blog, and author of Fermented Foods, also published by Reaktion Books. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Verlag
Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789147638
ISBN 13 
9781789147636
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
184
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