Food and Public Health

<strong>A new introduction to public health's most elemental topic</strong> <p/>Food is baked in to most things that public health is and does. But for a field charged with carrying torches as divergent as anti-hunger and anti-obesity it's unlikely even impossible to shape a unified approach to complex concepts like food environment food access or even nutrition. <p/><em>Food and Public Health</em> offers a contextualized accessible introduction to understanding the foundations (and contradictions) at the intersection of these two topics. It distills the historical political sociological and scientific factors influencing what we eat and where our food comes from then offers actionable insights for future nutritionists social workers dietitians and researchers in public health. <p/>Guiding the reader through more than a century of food-focused regulation policy and education <em>Food and Public Health</em> is an essential introduction to: <p/>� food production and availability on a global and neighborhood scale<br>� dietary guidelines agricultural subsidies rationing and other attempts by governments to shape their citizens' diets<br>� best practices in health promotion and chronic disease prevention<br>� food insecurity and its paradoxical role as driver of both hunger and obesity <p/>Enriched with real-world examples and case studies <em>Food and Public Health</em> offers a crucial link between kitchen tables and populations for the classroom.<br>