Le sucre : de l'idéalisation à l'ostracisme

In the 1910s-1920s, the change of food production and the avent of mass consumption, herses the era of abundance and overeating, which the ponents of ideology of vegetarism and naturism believe will have pathogenic conséquences, mainly obesity. Sugar plays an essentiel role in the construction of these représentations: First because its increase consumption and pleasure taken in its consuming; finaly in view of its image as an industrially produced food, denounced by the naturists as a « dévitalise » or « dead » product, deprived of nutritional qualities.