Janel Obenchain, Arlene Spark

Food Policy (eBook, ePUB)

Looking Forward from the Past

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Access to safe, adequate, and nutritionally balanced food is a cornerstone of public health. This book examines the influences of grassroots movements, the government, and industry on the US food systems. It examines the emergence of trends, food policies, and legislation balancing issues of food, nutrition and diet-related conditions, such as obesity. The authors address such topics as food markets, sustainable agriculture, dietary guidelines and dietary allowances, food labeling, food safety, and school wellness. Containing profiles of notable contributors to the field, the text also explores themes of government action versus individual liberty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040065037
• Artikelnr.: 72279475

Autorenporträt

Janel Obenchain majored in philosophy at Northwestern University. If she had been smarter at the time she would have continued on to a PhD in philosophy. Pragmatically, she thought law school might afford better employment opportunities. And it would have, too, if she had gone to law school. Fortunately, she was waitlisted and then rejected by Stanford, as this allowed her to instead participate in a far riskier lifestyle of attempting to qualify for the 1996 Olympic team in women's epee and working in numerous dot.com startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. Unfortunately she never made it to the top of either of these two pyramid schemes.

The details between then and her arrival at the public health program at Hunter College, City University of New York are not worth repeating. While residing in New York she studied community nutrition, including that of her own neighborhood. She worked for United Way NYC as a site evaluation consultant for food pantries and soup kitchens and, with a team of professors that included Dr. Spark, developed a policy agenda for the New York City Food and Fitness Partnership. Ms. Obenchain is the co-author of Food Policy: Looking Forward From the Past (2015).

Arlene Spark attended the City College of New York (CCNY) and Columbia University Teachers College. After majoring in English at CCNY, she worked for a year as a narcotics caseworker for the New York City Department of Social Services and then for three years as a home economics teacher at the Narcotics Addiction Control Commission (NAAC). The Commission awarded her a paid educational leave of absence for an MS in Public Health Nutrition. She subsequently earned an EdM in community nutrition and started teaching on the college level--and has been teaching on the college level ever since. A United States Public Health Traineeship allowed her to return to school to complete a doctorate in nutrition education. Dr. Spark's ca

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Politics: US Food Policy I. US Food Policy II. Food Activism
I. Food Activism II. Enrichment and Fortification I. Enrichment and
Fortification II. Dietary Guidance I. Dietary Guidance II. An Irreverent
Look at the Four Food Groups: Milk. Meat, Fish, Poultry. Grains. Fruits and
Vegetables. Federal Food Assistance and Food Security. Legislation and
Economics: Food Policy in Correctional Facilities. Taxation, Zoning, and
Other Ordinances. Baby Friendly Hospitals. Food Safety.