Tipping the Scales: When America Started Moralizing Food
It was once a virtue to have some excess weight, kids weren\u2019t considered picky eaters, and the term \u201coverweight\u201d didn\u2019t even exist. What changed? Helen Zoe Veit, an associate professor of history at Michigan State University, and author of \u201cModern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century,\u201d joined us to talk about how America began to moralize the food that we eat \u2014 or don\u2019t eat.