Impacts and Echoes: The Lasting Influence of the White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 437-461
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Woteki ◽  
Brandon L. Kramer ◽  
Samantha Cohen ◽  
Vicki A. Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
White House ◽  
Nutrition Science ◽  
Public Health Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Keynote Speech ◽  
Food Nutrition ◽  
Lasting Influence

The 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health had a significant influence on the direction of food and nutrition policy in the United States. The conference produced recommendations leading to federal legislation and programs to alleviate hunger and malnutrition, improve consumers’ nutrition knowledge through education and labeling, and monitor the nutritional status of the population. Fifty years later, its legacy was revisited at a conference convened by Harvard University and Tufts University. This article reviews the literature contributing to the first author's keynote speech at the conference, its influencers, and its influences. We focus on the highlights of five domains that set the stage for the conference: the social environment, the food environment, nutrition science, public health data, and policy events. We briefly describe the conference, its proposed directions, and its lasting legacy in these five domains.

Post-Postracial America

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Landsberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
White House ◽  
Political Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
A Site

A seismic shift in the racial landscape of the United States occurred in 2016. The prevailing discourse about a “postracial America,” though always, in the words of Catherine Squires a “mystique,” was firmly and finally extinguished with the election of Donald J. Trump. Race, in the form of racial prejudice, erupted in Trump’s political rhetoric and in the rhetoric of his supporters. At the same time, the continued significance and consequences of racial division in America were also being asserted for politically progressive ends by the increasingly prominent #blacklivesmatter movement and by the newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, DC, not far from the White House. This article tracks the resurgence of race in the US cultural landscape against the racially depoliticized myth of the “postracial” by focusing first on the HBO television series Westworld, which epitomizes that logic. The museum, which opened its doors against the backdrop of the presidential campaign, lodges a scathing critique of the very notion of the postracial; in fact, it signals the return of race as an urgent topic of national discussion. Part of the work of the museum is to materialize race, to move race and white supremacy to the center of the American national narrative. This article points to the way the museum creates what Jacques Rancière calls “dissensus,” and thus becomes a site of possibility for politics. The museum, in its very presence on the Mall, its provocative display strategies, and its narrative that highlights profound contradictions in the very meaning of America, intervenes in what Rancière calls “the distribution of the sensible” and thus creates the conditions for reconfiguring the social order. In part, it achieves this by racializing white visitors, forcing them to feel their own race in uncomfortable ways. The article suggests that this museum, and the broader emerging discourse about race in both film and television, offers new ways to think about the political work of culture.

scholarly journals Expansionism, Slavery, and Sectionalism: James K. Polk and American Enlargement under the Fluctuating Forces of Manifest Destiny

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fotouhi
Keyword(s):  
Manifest Destiny ◽  
The United States ◽  
White House ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Geographic Expansion ◽  
Progressive Ambition ◽  
Domestic Affairs ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
National Electorate

This article explores the relationship between President James K. Polk’s progressive ambition in the national electorate and the geographic expansion of the United States, particularly with regard to the social and religious foundations for manifest destiny in the public conscience. The author finds that manifest destiny played a central role in President James K. Polk’s successful campaign for the White House as well as his handling of foreign and domestic affairs.

What does healthy eating mean? Australian teachers’ perceptions of healthy eating in secondary school curricula

2019 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Boddy ◽  
Alison Booth ◽  
Anthony Worsley
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Nutrition And Health ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
Food Nutrition ◽  
School Curricula

Purpose Teachers disseminate food knowledge and skills in secondary school curricula that provide essential skills for a healthy life. The purpose of this paper is to explore Australian secondary school teachers’ views of healthy eating and their sources of information in planning their food, nutrition and health curriculum. Design/methodology/approach Secondary school teachers’ perceptions were explored through semi-structured, in-depth interviews that were de-identified and transcribed verbatim. Codes were ascribed to sections of the transcripts and throughout the process of inductive thematic analysis. The teachers’ responses were grouped into five main themes: approaches to teaching healthy eating, sources of food and nutrition information, curriculum planning, teaching goals and teacher career influences. Findings The teachers were clear about the aims and importance of teaching healthy eating in an experiential curriculum. They reported that teaching healthy eating assists the health and well--being of adolescents and their families. The effectiveness of current teaching in Australian secondary schools may be compromised by the positioning of food, nutrition and health topics in two separate curriculum areas: technologies and health and physical education, and competing school priorities and resources that limit the students’ exposures to food curricula. The teachers sourced food information from online websites, popular culture and social media. Their knowledge and views of healthy eating appeared to be associated with their interests, life experiences, education and employment histories. Practical implications These findings can assist with health promotion and education policy development. They can assist the design of healthy eating curriculum approaches for secondary schools and professional development courses for teachers, which will foster healthy food habits for adolescents, and their families in the future. Originality/value Secondary school teacher perceptions of the place of healthy eating in food, and nutrition curricula have been under examined.

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