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Empty Pleasures , a rich and rewarding read, makes the tools of cultural analysis available to a wide range of readers. De la Pena's argument, that artificial sweeteners provide consumers with a way to exercise 'indulgent restraint, ' will surely re-energize scholarly and policy discussions of the American diet. --Jennifer Scanlon, author of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown

Empty Pleasures , a rich and rewarding read, makes the tools of cultural analysis available to a wide range of readers. De la Pena's argument, that artificial sweeteners provide consumers with a way to exercise 'indulgent restraint, ' will surely re-energize scholarly and policy discussions of the American diet. --Jennifer Scanlon, author of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown <br>

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Carolyn de la Pena is a professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis. She is author of The Body Electric: How Strange Machines Built the Modern American.

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