The Great Protein Fiasco
from Maintenance Phase
by Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
Published: Tue Aug 31 2021
Show Notes
How Nestlé executives, global health institutions and a very racist white lady seeded a series of nutritional misconceptions we're still living with today.
Special thanks to John Nott for helping us out with this episode! Here's his papers on the history of protein and the British Empire.
- “Noone may starve in the British Empire”: Kwashiorkor, Protein and the Politics of Nutrition Between Britain and Africa
- “HowLittle Progress”? A Political Economy of Postcolonial Nutrition
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- CicelyWilliams’ dissertation
- Dariush Mozaffarian's "History of Modern Nutrition Science"
- TheIncidence Of Protein-Calorie Malnutrition Of Early Childhood
- AnError of Medicine? Kwashiorkor and the “Protein Gap”
- ChildhoodMalnutrition In Developing Nations: Looking Back and Looking Forward
- The Politics of Protein
- The Impact of Colonialism on Health and Health Services in Tanzania
- Breast-Milkand the World Protein Gap
- The Influence of Colonialism on Africa’s Welfare: An Anthropometric Study
- Food,Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness
- Revisited:Is Subclinical Protein Deficiency A Significant Public Health Concern?
- Listeningto the Ga: Cicely Williams’ Discovery of Kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast
- “Milkingthe Third World: Humanitarianism, Capitalism and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott”
- The Controversy Over Infant Formula
- War on Want’s “The Baby Killer “
- 75years of Kwashiorkor In Africa
- TheRise and Fall of Protein Malnutrition in Global Health