What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two. Eating and Being is a history of Western thinking about food, eating, knowledge, and ourselves. In modern thought, eating is about what is good for you, not about what isgood. Eating is about health, not about virtue. Yet this has not always been the case. For a great span of the past?from antiquity through about the middle of the eighteenth century?one of the most pervasive branches of medicine was known asdietetics, prescribing not only what people should eat but also how they should order many aspects of their lives, including sleep, exercise, and emotional management. Dietetics did not distinguish between the medical and the moral, nor did it acknowledge the difference between what was good for youand what wasgood. Dietetics counseled moderation in all things, where moderation was counted as...
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