A source of our wealth, yet adverse to our health? Butter and the diet-heart link in New Zealand to c.1990
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The medical link between dietary saturated fat, serum cholesterol, and arteriosclerosis redefined meanings for butter in New Zealand, from a celebrated dietary staple to a potentially harmful substance to be closely monitored in the diet. The introduction of a nutritionally endorsed butter substitute, polyunsaturated margarine, heightened this shift. This article addresses the ways in which such links are taken up and negotiated outside the medical sphere. It examines the responses of...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Steel, Frances | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-13T22:55:42Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0951-631X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/82638 | |
dc.description.abstract | The medical link between dietary saturated fat, serum cholesterol, and arteriosclerosis redefined meanings for butter in New Zealand, from a celebrated dietary staple to a potentially harmful substance to be closely monitored in the diet. The introduction of a nutritionally endorsed butter substitute, polyunsaturated margarine, heightened this shift. This article addresses the ways in which such links are taken up and negotiated outside the medical sphere. It examines the responses of government, nutritional organizations, the dairy industry, commercial interests, women responsible for feeding coronary heart disease sufferers, and everyday butter consumers. The article concludes that rearticulating meanings for butter along medicalized lines was a highly fraught undertaking, particularly in a country in which dairying was of central economic importance and underpinned national iconography. | |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | |
dc.source | Social History of Medicine | |
dc.subject | Keywords: Butter; Coronary heart disease; Dairy industry; New Zealand; Nutritional science; Polyunsaturated margarine; Primary and secondary prevention; Saturated fat | |
dc.title | A source of our wealth, yet adverse to our health? Butter and the diet-heart link in New Zealand to c.1990 | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.description.refereed | Yes | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 18 | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 111199 - Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified | |
local.identifier.absfor | 149903 - Heterodox Economics | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | MigratedxPub10875 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Steel, Frances, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 3 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 475 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 93 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1093/shm/hki048 | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-11T11:11:52Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-29144475446 | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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