American Food Studies: Public Health & Nutrition
Books of Interest
A dictionary of food and nutrition by Call Number: Ebook AvailableISBN: 9780191752391Publication Date: 2014This dictionary offers jargon-free entries on food, nutrition, diet, and health that clearly explain even the most technical of nutritional terms.
Eating Right in America by Call Number: Ebook AvailableISBN: 0822377276Publication Date: 2013-09-01Eating Right in America is a powerful critique of dietary reform in the United States from the late nineteenth-century emergence of nutritional science through the contemporary alternative food movement and campaign against obesity.
Childhood Obesity in America by Call Number: Ebook AvailableISBN: 9780674369573Publication Date: 2014-06-01Childhood Obesity in America traces the changes in diagnosis and treatment, as well as popular understanding, of the most serious public health problem facing American children today.
Eat, Drink, and Be Wary by Call Number: Undergrad Library RA601.5 .D86 2015ISBN: 9781442238398Publication Date: 2015-01-15Food safety has fast become one of the nation's top issues. Eat, Drink, and Be Wary examines the multitude of dangers in food production, transportation, storing, and preparation that result in this shocking number of preventable illnesses and deaths. It takes a broad and detailed look, in all food groups, at the problems and potential solutions in food safety practices, inspections, and enforcements.
A Bone to Pick by Call Number: Undergrad Library HD9000.9.U5 B48 2015ISBN: 0804186545Publication Date: 2015-05-05As abundant and safe as the American food supply appears to be, the state of our health reveals the presence of staggering deficiencies in both the system that produces food and the forces that regulate it. Bittman leaves no issue unexamined; agricultural practices, government legislation, fad diets, and corporate greed all come under scrutiny and show that the issues governing what ends up in our market basket and on our tables are both complex and often deliberately confusing. At once inspiring, enraging, and enlightening, A Bone to Pick is an essential resource for every reader eager to understand not only the complexities inherent in the American food system, but also the many opportunities that exist to improve it.
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- Health Source: Nursing/Academic EditionIndexing, abstracts and full-text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals covering a variety of specialties including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and many more.
Related Websites
- Choose My Plate - Resources on the USDA's dietary guidelines
- US Food and Drug Administration - U.S. governmental agency responsible for safeguarding and advancing public health
- Food Safety - Resource on food safety information provided by government agencies
- Science Daily - Source for news on health research
- What We Eat in America - Resource of data on food, beverages, and nutrient intake of Americans
- National Center for Health Statistics - Provides U.S. public health statistics including diseases, pregnancies, births, aging, and mortality. Public use data files are available to download.
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities -Resources on the health disparities faced by racial and ethnic minority groups, rural populations, populations with low socioeconomic status, and other population groups.
- World Health Organization - Monitors disease outbreaks, assesses the performance of health systems around the globe, provides the World Health Report and World Health Statistics.
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U.S. Food and Nutrition Programs
This chapter provides an overview of the patchwork of U.S. food and nutrition programs, with detailed discussions of SNAP (formerly the Food Stamp Program), WIC, and the school breakfast and lunch programs.
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