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.

“No one may starve in the British Empire”: Kwashiorkor, Protein and the Politics of Nutrition Between Britain and Africa
“How Little Progress”? A Political Economy of Postcolonial Nutrition

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Cicely Williams’ dissertation
Dariush Mozaffarian's "History of Modern Nutrition Science"
The Incidence Of Protein-Calorie Malnutrition Of Early Childhood
An Error of Medicine? Kwashiorkor and the “Protein Gap”
Childhood Malnutrition In Developing Nations: Looking Back and Looking Forward
The Politics of Protein
The Impact of Colonialism on Health and Health Services in Tanzania
Breast-Milk and 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?
Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams’ Discovery of Kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast
“Milking the Third World: Humanitarianism, Capitalism and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott”
The Controversy Over Infant Formula
War on Want’s “The Baby Killer “
75 years of Kwashiorkor In Africa
The Rise and Fall of Protein Malnutrition in Global Health

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