Travis A. Weisse, PhD

Scholar of culture, diet, alternative medicine, intersections between food and health @NMSU | #histstm #histmed #foodstudies

[UNC Press @UNC_Press]

Diet gurus are not typically treated as serious historical figures. Yet some of them, like Nathan Pritikin, have made a significant impact on US History.

Find out how in this blog post from @TravisWeisse, author of HEALTH FREAKS 🩺

https://t.co/jeOCxTiigr

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@rlouisemoran @UNC_Press Yay! And you killed it with the blurb! TYSM

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Hey y'all! Just got word that my book is now available for pre-order on the @UNC_Press site!!🥳🥳 Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%!

https://t.co/19o2kRn8N4

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Just thought of this at the airport this morning: why not repurpose empty office buildings into huge urban farms? Obviously I'm not the first to think of this, but it seems better and easier than costly and impractical apartments. Change the food geography https://t.co/lJp3sSgfhw

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Not everyday you read this headline... https://t.co/yBOYWQd51l

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It's great fun to block all the creepy people who bought verification just to inflate Elon's ego. As our new unwelcome overlord loves to say... 'checkmate' Block The Blue!!

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Imagine that. Diligent persuasion (and not just outright shame) actually works! https://t.co/659kXVot2z

[Journal of the Hist. of Medicine & Allied Sciences @JournalHMAS]

🚨 Books in need of reviewers! 🚨

Looking to review a #histmed #histSTM book in #JHMAS? Please get in touch with @Dr_C_Thompson if you are interested in reviewing one of these fantastic books!

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@kchysmith @UNC_Press Yay! Thanks!

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Thrilled to announce that my first book, Health Freaks: Fad Diets, Cultural Movements, and the Quest to Relieve Chronic Illness in America is officially under contract with @UNC_Press! #twitterstorians #foodhist #histsci #histmed

Read the🧵for more details...

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Many eventually found relief in the alleged #pseudoscience they claimed not to have gotten from orthodox treatment, but how did diets become so successful and persuasive as a new form of American alternative medicine? Read my book to find out...🙃

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Despite massive fear campaigns led by the AMA, FDA, and other leading scientific institutions to persuade Americans that diets were useless at best, dangerous--even deadly--at worst, millions flocked to gurus in the hope that lifestyle change could reverse their disease anyway.

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Prisoners staying in cells so hot the warden said he wouldn't let his cat in there unless it had rabies, yet still did nothing...shameful.

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We're thinking through lessons for COVID & incarceration by analyzing historical case studies during this student-led second panel #AAHM22 Sobering stuff.

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@brdgtc Drive out to Saratoga springs! Plenty of patio space out this way

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@rebfulton holding down the first session at #AAHM22 by herself with a fascinating talk on menopause, kidnapping, murder and madness. Great way to kick us off!

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Mandatory reading. https://t.co/q0kCdPx0HR