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Salt wars : the battle over the biggest killer in the American diet / by Jacobson, Michael F.,author.; Frieden, Tom,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Salt, a Primer -- The Case for Eating Less Salt -- The Case Against Eating Less Salt -- What All the Research Means -- The Mouse that Roared : The Salt Institute -- Less Salty Diets Around the Globe -- Policy Paralysis in the United States -- Progress at Last! -- Next Steps for Progress -- Protecting Your Own Health."A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, strokes, and heart attacks. It's been estimated that excess sodium in the American diet causes as many as 100,000 deaths deaths and many billions of dollars in avoidable health-care costs each year. And yet salt is everywhere in our diets--in packaged foods, fast foods, and especially meals at table-service restaurants. Why hasn't salt received the sort of public attention and regulatory action that sugar and fat have? In Salt Wars, Michael Jacobson explains how the American food industry and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food."--
Subjects: Salt-free diet.; Salt in the body.; Salt; Nutrition policy; Sodium Chloride, Dietary; Diet; Nutrition Policy.;
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Childhood obesity in America : biography of an epidemic / by Dawes, Laura,1976-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-294) and index.Measurement and diagnosis. How big is normal ? : Quantifying children's body size ; Measuring up : Height-weight standards and diagnosis ; Sugar, spice, frogs, snails : The composition of the fat child ; Insides made easy : Measuring and diagnosing obesity using body composition -- Causes and treatments. Something wrong inside : Childhood obesity as a biological fault, and the hope for a drug treatment ; The enduring promise : The continued search for a pharmaceutical remedy ; Feeling fat : Emotions and family as factors in childhood obesity ; Kalorie Kids : Energy balance and the turn to child responsibility ; Summer slimming : Fat camps as a diet-and-exercise obesity treatment -- Epidemic. Bigger bodies in a broken world : Television and the epidemic of childhood obesity ; Fat kids go to court : Legal action as public health response to childhood obesity."A century ago, a plump child was considered a healthy child. No longer. An overweight child is now known to be at risk for maladies ranging from asthma to cardiovascular disease, and obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Childhood 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. Excess weight was once thought to be something children outgrew, or even a safeguard against infectious disease. But by the mid-twentieth century, researchers recognized early obesity as an indicator of lifelong troubles. Debates about its causes and proper treatment multiplied. Over the century, fat children were injected with animal glands, psychoanalyzed, given amphetamines, and sent to fat camp. In recent decades, an emphasis on taking personal responsibility for one's health, combined with commercial interests, has affected the way the public health establishment has responded to childhood obesity--and the stigma fat children face. At variance with this personal emphasis is the realization that societal factors, including fast food, unsafe neighborhoods, and marketing targeted at children, are strongly implicated in weight gain. Activists and the courts are the most recent players in the obesity epidemic's biography. Today, obesity in this age group is seen as a complex condition, with metabolic, endocrine, genetic, psychological, and social elements. Laura Dawes makes a powerful case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective health policy." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects: Obesity in children; Overweight children; Nutrition policy; Health promotion;
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Combat-ready kitchen : how the U.S. military shapes the way you eat / by Marx de Salcedo, Anastacia.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-277) and index."Americans eat more processed foods than anyone else in the world. We also spend more on military research. These two seemingly unrelated facts are inextricably linked. If you ever wondered how ready-to-eat foods infiltrated your kitchen, you'll love this entertaining romp through the secret military history of practically everything you buy at the supermarket. In a nondescript Boston suburb, in a handful of low buildings buffered by trees and a lake, a group of men and women spend their days researching, testing, tasting, and producing the foods that form the bedrock of the American diet. If you stumbled into the facility, you might think the technicians dressed in lab coats and the shiny kitchen equipment belonged to one of the giant food conglomerates responsible for your favorite brand of frozen pizza or microwavable breakfast burritos. So you'd be surprised to learn that you've just entered the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center, ground zero for the processed food industry. Ever since Napoleon, armies have sought better ways to preserve, store, and transport food for battle. As part of this quest, although most people don't realize it, the U.S. military spearheaded the invention of energy bars, restructured meat, extended-life bread, instant coffee, and much more. But there's been an insidious mission creep: because the military enlisted industry--huge corporations such as ADM, ConAgra, General Mills, Hershey, Hormel, Mars, Nabisco, Reynolds, Smithfield, Swift, Tyson, and Unilever--to help develop and manufacture food for soldiers on the front line, over the years combat rations, or the key technologies used in engineering them, have ended up dominating grocery store shelves and refrigerator cases. TV dinners, the cheese powder in snack foods, cling wrap... The list is almost endless. Now food writer Anastacia Marx de Salcedo scrutinizes the world of processed food and its long relationship with the military--unveiling the twists, turns, successes, failures, and products that have found their way from the armed forces' and contractors' laboratories into our kitchens. In developing these rations, the army was looking for some of the very same qualities as we do in our hectic, fast-paced twenty-first-century lives: portability, ease of preparation, extended shelf life at room temperature, affordability, and appeal to even the least adventurous eaters. In other words, the military has us chowing down like special ops. What is the effect of such a diet, eaten--as it is by soldiers and most consumers--day in and day out, year after year? We don't really know. We're the guinea pigs in a giant public health experiment, one in which science and technology, at the beck and call of the military, have taken over our kitchens"--Dust jacket.Unpacking Your Child's Lunch Box -- American Food System, Central Command, Part One -- American Food System, Central Command, Part Two -- A Romp Through the Early History of Combat Rations -- Disruptive Innovation : The Tin Can -- World War II, The Subsistence Lab, and Its Merry Band Of Insiders -- What America Runs On -- How Do You Want That Chunked and Formed Restructured Steak? -- A Loaf of Extended-Life Bread, a Hunk of Processed Cheese, and Thou -- Plastic Packaging Remodels the Planet -- Late-Night Munchies? Break Out the Three-Year-Old Pizza And Months-Old Guacamole -- Supermarket Tour -- Coming Up Next from the House of GI Joe -- Do We Really Want Our Children Eating like Special Ops?
Subjects: Food industry and trade; Processed foods; Diet; Nutrition policy; Food habits;
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Food fight : the citizen's guide to the next food and farm bill / by Imhoff, Dan.; Pollan, Michael.; Kirschenmann, Frederick L.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208).Foreword: Don't call it the "Farm bill," call it the "Food bill" / Michael Pollan -- Introduction: A food and farm bill for the 21st century / Fred Kirschenmann -- Preface: Food democracy / Daniel Imhoff -- Part 1. Why the farm bill matters -- Part 2. Wedge issues -- Part 3. Turning the tables.
Subjects: Food supply; Agricultural subsidies; Food law and legislation; Food law and legislation; Food law and legislation; Nutrition policy; Food industry and trade; Energy policy;
© c2012., Watershed Media,
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Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health / by Nestle, Marion.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Undermining dietary advice -- Working the system -- Exploiting kids, corrupting schools -- Deregulating dietary supplements -- Inventing techno-foods -- Conclusion: the politics of food choice -- Afterword: food politics : five years later and beyond -- Appendix: issues in nutrition and nutrition research.
Subjects: Nutrition policy; Food; Food industry and trade; Food industry and trade; Politique alimentaire; Aliments; Aliments;
© c2007., University of California Press,
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School lunch politics : the surprising history of America's favorite welfare program / by Levine, Susan,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-241) and index.Introduction. The politics of lunch -- 1. A diet for Americans -- The search for a scientific diet -- A diet for Americans -- Nutrition and malnutrition -- School lunch as public policy -- 2. Welfare for farmers and children -- School lunches for hungry children -- Eating the surplus -- The institutionalization of school lunch -- 3. Nutrition standards and standard diets -- School lunch standards -- Nutrition in the national defense -- Eating democracy -- 4. A national school lunch program -- Agriculture or education? -- The liberal compromise -- Discrimination and segregation -- 5. Ideals and realities in the lunchroom -- Nutrition and surplus commodities -- Nutrition and the food service industry -- The limits of the lunchroom -- 6. No free lunch -- Discovering hunger in America -- Agriculture or welfare? -- Food and the poverty line -- 7. A right to lunch -- The free lunch mandate -- The women's campaign -- School lunch and civil rights -- Eligibility standards and the right to lunch -- 8. Let them eat ketchup -- Who pays for free lunch? -- Combo meals and nutrition standards -- Ketchup and other vegetables -- Epilogue. Fast food and poor children.
Subjects: National school lunch program.; School children; Children;
© c2008., Princeton University Press,
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Health promotion and aging : practical applications for health professionals / by Haber, David,1944-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction to health promotion and aging -- Clinical preventive services and aging -- Empowering older adults -- Exercise and aging -- Nutrition, weight management, and aging -- Complementary and alternative medicine, and aging -- Selected health education and aging topics -- Mental health and aging -- Community health and aging -- Long-term care and end-of-life care -- Public health policy and aging -- Diversity and aging."I was trained at the University of Southern California as a sociologist looking at the big picture and specializing in gerontology, but I spent my career implementing and evaluating small health promotion projects in the community. This divergence between training and practice has informed me on why promoting health is possible, but difficult. From a sociological perspective, it is clear to me that American society is not particularly health promoting. For example, computers are increasingly promoting sedentary behavior, both at work and at play. A fast-paced society encourages us to seek convenient food and drink choices, and ubiquitous advertising-to the tune of tens of billions of dollars per year-promotes questionable foods and drinks over good nutrition. And the considerable stress engendered by a dynamic society can lead to smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, or engaging in other risky behaviors"--
Subjects: Preventive health services for older people; Health promotion; Older people; Health Promotion; Aged; Aging; Preventive Health Services; Health Services for the Aged; Chronic Disease;
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Lunch wars : how to start a school food revolution and win the battle for our children's health / by Kalafa, Amy.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-362) and index."In Lunch Wars, award-winning filmmaker and nutritionist Amy Kalafa answers the question she's received from parents around the country in response to her inspiring documentary film Two Angry Moms: "If I want to change the food culture in my kid's school cafeteria, how can I get started?" By explaining the issues surrounding school food; how to work with your school's "Wellness Policy"; the basics of good nutrition (vs. what is currently being served in most schools); how to get funding for a school garden and much more, this book will finally arm parents with the specific information and strategies they need to make a difference in the quality of school food in their community. The book will also feature the inspiring stories of parents around the country who have fought for better food in their schools and won"--
Subjects: National school lunch program.; School children; School children; Education; Educational change;
© c2011., Jeremy P. Tacher/Penguin,
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The Cambridge world history of food / by Kiple, Kenneth F.,1939-; Ornelas, Kriemhild ConeeÌ.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This outstanding work of scholarship explains what we eat and why we eat it. The multidisciplinary articles discuss both individual foods and topics such as food fads, famine, and eating disorders."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2001.v. 1. Determining what our ancestors ate -- Staple foods: domesticated plants and animals -- Grains -- Roots, tubers, and other starchy staples -- Important vegetable supplements -- Staple nuts -- Animal, marine, and vegetable oils -- Trading in tastes -- Important foods from animal sources -- Dietary liquids -- The nutrients -- Vitamins -- Minerals -- Proteins, fats, and essential fatty acids -- Deficiency diseases -- Food-related disorders -- Diet and chronic disease.v. 2. Food and drink around the world -- The history and culture of food and drink in Asia -- in Europe -- in the Americas -- in Sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania -- Culinary history -- History, nutrition, and health -- Contemporary food-related policy issues -- A dictionary of the world's plant foods.
Subjects: Food;
© 2000., Cambridge University Press,
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SNAP matters : how food stamps affect health and well-being / by Bartfeld, Judi,editor.; Gundersen, Craig,editor.; Smeeding, Timothy M.,editor.; Ziliak, James Patrick,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Why are so many Americans on food stamps? : the role of the economy, policy, and demographics / James P. Ziliak -- The effect of SNAP on poverty / Laura Tiehen, Dean Jolliffe, and Timothy Smeeding -- The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and food insecurity / Christian Gregory, Matthew P. Rabbitt, and David C. Ribar -- SNAP and food consumption / Hilary W. Hoynes, Leslie McGranahan, and Diane W. Schanzenbach -- The health and nutrition effects of SNAP : selection into the program and a review of the literature on its effects / Marianne P. Bitler -- SNAP and obesity / Craig Gundersen -- SNAP and the school meal programs / Judith Bartfeld -- Multiple program participation and the SNAP program / Robert A. Moffitt.In 1963, President Kennedy proposed making a pilot project permanent: the Food Stamp Program (FSP). Renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in 2008, it currently faces sharp political pressure, but the research necessary to guide policy is still nascent. In SNAP Matters, Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy M. Smeeding, and James P. Ziliak gather top scholars to begin asking and answering the questions that matter. Overall, the volume concludes that SNAP is effective and highly responsive to macroeconomic pressures, but encourages continued examination of this major pillar of American social assistance. -- from back cover.
Subjects: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (U.S.); Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (U.S.); Food stamps; Food Assistance.;
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