‘Look Younger, Live Longer’: Ageing Beautifully with Gayelord Hauser in America, 1920–1975

Carstairs, Catherine

doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12072

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“…Autor ten zbudował uwodzącą elity narrację o swojej podróży, w której stary mnich uleczył go z poważnych problemów zdrowotnych dietą bazującą m.in. na jogurcie (Carstairs 2014). Wpływ tego medialnego i skonfliktowanego ze środowiskiem eksperckim pisarza był ogromny.…”

Section: Umacnianie: Wiejskość I Systemy żYwieniowe Od Xix Wieku Do W...unclassified

Idylle, hybrydy i heterotopie. Wiejskość i jedzenie w alternatywnych sieciach żywieniowych

Goszczyński

2023

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Section: Umacnianie: Wiejskość I Systemy żYwieniowe Od Xix Wieku Do W...unclassified

Idylle, hybrydy i heterotopie. Wiejskość i jedzenie w alternatywnych sieciach żywieniowych

Goszczyński

2023

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“…Contemporary debates about an obesity epidemic, concerns about food additives and chemicals, and preoccupations with vitamins promoted public interest in healthy eating and encouraged the sale of self-help books. 23 Post-war Britons and Americans demonstrated the reach of governmentality as they wanted to maintain their health, energy and productivity in line with normative body standards. A fetishism for goods also attracted readers to this genre.…”

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Self-help and self-promotion

Kefalas¹

2020

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Weeks to Optimum Health, first published in 1997, encapsulates the style and language used in self-help and health advice literature on both sides of the Atlantic across the second half of the twentieth century. Analysis of this literature reveals cultural preoccupations with notions of balance and efforts to reframe the self under medical direction, as well as concerns about the detrimental effects of modern living on diet and health. More particularly, a key feature of the self-help genre, in relation to diet at least, was a commitment to providing readers with the knowledge and agency necessary to achieve ideal selfhood, health and well-being themselves through what the authors thought to be balanced diets or lifestyles. Drawing on self-help books that were in the Publishers' Digest top ten, The New York Times' bestsellers and books with multiple reprints, this chapter considers the self-help genre as one of the key sources and promoters of thinness, youthfulness, vitality, longevity and health as necessary pillars of twentieth-and twenty-first-century selfhood, but also of the concept of balance as a means of achieving health. More specifically, this chapter draws on the work of popular authors, such as

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“…The Gayelord diet was developed in the 1920s by Benjamin Gayelord Hauser, a graduate in naturopathy and chiropractice (Carstairs, 2014). It was based on a seven-day elimination diet with a fasting day which only allowed the consumption of juice.…”

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Falsas dietas y dietas falsas

Castillo

Llobell

2020

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Globally, 1.9 billion adults are overweight, 650 million of which are obese, which in turn impacts both health and economy. Treating obesity involves strategies such as physical activity and dietary planning, always under the supervision of healthcare professionals. Recent decades have brought many fad diets. They originated at the beginning of the twentieth century and can lead to health problems among their users. A practical way to detect them is that they promise rapid weight loss (more than 1 kg per week), they are allegedly effortless, impose excessive energy restrictions, and exclude food or nutrients from the diet.

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‘Look Younger, Live Longer’: Ageing Beautifully with Gayelord Hauser in America, 1920–1975

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Idylle, hybrydy i heterotopie. Wiejskość i jedzenie w alternatywnych sieciach żywieniowych

Idylle, hybrydy i heterotopie. Wiejskość i jedzenie w alternatywnych sieciach żywieniowych

Self-help and self-promotion

Falsas dietas y dietas falsas

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