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Opinion: What Oprah gets right about diet culture

by : Adrienne Rose Bitar , CNN

Some Americans felt betrayed when Oprah Winfrey recently revealed that she had taken weight-loss medication, writes Adrienne Bitar, lecturer in the American Studies Program, in a CNN op-ed. “How could she, the queen of WeightWatchers and doyenne of dieting, be abandoning the equation of diet + exercise = slim?” Bitar writes in the piece. “Maybe because Oprah is conceding an uncomfortable…

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The government's role in the rise of lab grown meat

by : Adrienne Rose Bitar , Wired.com

Adrienne Rose Bitar, a post doctoral associate in the Department of History, specializes in the history and culture of American food and health. Bitar recently published "Diet and the Disease of Civilization," a study of diet books that examines trends in popular diets. Recently, Bitar published an opinion piece through Wired.com that discusses the increasing role FDA regulations play in the…