Experiment Station Dietary Studies Prior to World War II: A Bibliography for the Study of Changing American Food Habits and Diet Over Time

Dirks, Robert; Duran, Nancy

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“…For example, one study linked the intake of dairy products to dental health (Morey 1933) while others identified the importance of good nutrition for disease prevention (Moser 1935a;Stiebeling 1930). In the general area of diet and nutrition, there were 32 experiment station bulletins published between 1926 and 1930 (Dirks and Duran 1998). In the 1950s, the emphasis on nutrition, food storage, and time-saving food production strategies (e.g., meal planning) continued to grow (Moser 1953;Swan 1986).…”

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“…This food rule implies it could be insightful to trace dietary changes back in time at least 60 to 80 years if we are to understand how they may be underpinning America's obesity epidemic today. The importance of taking a longer historical view on the correlates of diet quality is echoed by nutritionists who have argued that dietary data gathered in the first half of the twentieth century "beg to be recycled into social and historical investigations" (Dirks andDuran 1998, p. 1253).…”

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Diet Quality of Farm and Nonfarm Households in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Roles of Technological Change and Women’s Work

Zick¹,

Birtulescu²

2019

Soc. sci. hist.

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In recent decades, dramatic increases in Americans’ obesity rates have led some nutrition activists to call for a return to the dietary norms of earlier times when homemakers spent more time in meal preparation. Using archival data from unique survey records gathered in Upstate New York in 1936 and 1952, we provide descriptive information on the quality of the diets using measures of the variety of foods served and a modified version of U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Healthy Eating Index. Our multivariate analyses focus in on the relationships between diet quality and sociodemographics, homemakers’ time use, and household technology. We conclude that the typical Upstate New York diet of the 1930s was not of high quality, but improvements had occurred by the early 1950s. Our multivariate analyses reveal that access to modern kitchen technology had a strong, positive association with diet quality while homemakers’ time devoted to food-related activities was only weakly linked.

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Diet Quality of Farm and Nonfarm Households in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Roles of Technological Change and Women’s Work

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Birtulescu²

2019

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“…As Nancy Duran points out “many of the earliest dietary researchers were chemists, especially agricultural chemists (2000, p.1882).” Atwater is credited with initiating American household field investigations (now called dietary recalls) on dietary practices during the late 19th century (Dirks & Duran, 1998). As a matter of course, field scientists that kept detailed laboratory records on family households’ dietary patterns inadvertently produced cultural history by recording normative eating patterns and social habits, albeit Atwater’s findings may not have been representative of the entire country.…”

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Early History and Evolution of Nutrition Science in the United States of America

Pucciarelli

2009

Family & Consum Sci Res J

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Nutrition Science in the 21st century dates back to at least before the 5th century BCE. Whereas early theories on the relationship between food and health outcomes were founded on philosophical thought or divine intervention, today's nutritionists source their advice from empirical evidence. This essay delineates and reconstructs nutrition science as the discipline evolves and progresses through scientific stages of change in early North America.

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“…Duran compiled an extensive list of these and other early dietaries (20). Duran supplemented this list and added early cost-of-living studies (23).…”

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DIET ANDNUTRITION INPOOR ANDMINORITYCOMMUNITIES INTHEUNITEDSTATES100 YEARSAGO

Dirks

2003

Annu. Rev. Nutr.

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Atwater and his colleagues began studying food consumption in the closing years of the nineteenth century and from the very start devoted much effort to collecting data from poor and minority households. This paper reviews some of the fruits of these labors, particularly from the standpoint of what they contribute toward a better historical understanding of American food habits and nutrition. It surveys dietary data from African American, Appalachian white, Mexican American, native-born poor, and immigrant households. These data shed light on several areas of historical concern, including rural versus urban nutrition, seasonal hunger, class disparities, and food-habit change. I suggest the economically and culturally diverse sample of dietary patterns that comes to us as a legacy of the Atwater era sets the stage for a history of American food habits considerably more sophisticated than has been realized to date.

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Experiment Station Dietary Studies Prior to World War II: A Bibliography for the Study of Changing American Food Habits and Diet Over Time

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Diet Quality of Farm and Nonfarm Households in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Roles of Technological Change and Women’s Work

Diet Quality of Farm and Nonfarm Households in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Roles of Technological Change and Women’s Work

Early History and Evolution of Nutrition Science in the United States of America

DIET ANDNUTRITION INPOOR ANDMINORITYCOMMUNITIES INTHEUNITEDSTATES100 YEARSAGO

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