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Cornflake Crusade (New York: Rinehart, 1957); Ronald Deutsch, The Nuts Among the Berries (New York: Ballantine, 1961). For more recent and balanced appraisals: James C. Whorton, Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982); Harvey Green, Fit for America: Health, Fitness, and American Society (New York: Pantheon, 1986); Ronald G. Walters, American Reformers, 1815-1860 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1978), 145-72; Harvey Levenstein, Revolution at the Table: The Transformation aof the American Diet (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 86-97; and Levenstein, Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America (New York: Oxford, 1993), 178-94. For journalistic treatment of the countercuisine: Appetite for Change, 154-82.