Food and Public Health
Food and Public Health is an easy to read text that helps students understand the history of modern issues in public health nutrition and health promotion. The book’s chapters include practical real-world applications and cases, which serve as examples for extension activities. For instructors, the text offers discussion and writing prompts for each chapter, as well as sample quiz questions. In its 12 chapters, the book covers more than one hundred years of food and public health history including the development of the dietary guidelines, current applications of health behavior theory, approaches to health promotion and disease prevention including food policy, new challenges in curbing food marketing to kids, obesogenic environments, and best practices in chronic disease prevention. Food insecurity is a concept discussed throughout the book with an emphasis on resultant public health problems of both hunger and obesity. The text encourages reflections on global food issues, such as how food, culture, and food insecurity intersect in a global food system.