รัฐ โภชนาการใหม่กับการเปลี่ยนแปลงวิถีการกินในสังคมไทย พ.ศ. 2482-2517 / ชาติชาย มุกสง = STATE, NEW NUTRITION AND CHANGES IN WAY OF EATING IN THAI SOCIETY, 1939-1974 / Chatchai Muksong
This thesis studied roles of Thai state in relation to the new nutrition in Thai society. It examined changes in ways of eating following an implementation of the new nutrition in 1939-1974. It unveiled that the new nutrition arrived alongside the Western medical scheme, which both imposed scientific thinking basis. The advent collided and shifted the Thai’s eating ways from a conventional nutrition, which is one of the traditional medical systems based on a humoral theory. The new Thai state adopted the new nutrition scheme to implement health building programs and civil wellbeing, that promoted the eating based on scientific principles of healthy food properties for one’s healthiness. It has thus far influenced the Thai population’s eating practice. The Thai state’s nutrition implementation during an initial phase in the 1930s highlighted the dissemination of knowledge in accordance with “consumption science”. It involved eating practice that was based on scientific principles toward state building by shifting to the Thais’ civilized eating. During the cold war starting from the 1950s when Thailand received economic and academic assistance from the United States of America, it assumed the “new nutrition” following the U.S. public policy execution as an important tool to modify the Thais’ eating approaches. Eating was tuned to agricultural development. It was learned and adjusted to quality life pursuit along the lines with home economics knowledge. All played a significant role in changing eating approaches at home, community, and school. Ways of eating in the Thai society were tremendously altered and led to such eating that are regulated by standard measures and by new nutrition controls amid a rapidly emerging food industry. The Food and Drug Administration Office was hence founded in 1974 to be robustly in charge.
