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Category : Nutrition
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
News from the National 5 a Day Program
Author: News from the National 5 a Day Program
Author: 5 a Day for Better Health Program
Author: Five a Day for Better Health
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
List of Classes of United States Government Publications Available for Selection by Depository Libraries
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Author: 5 a Day Online
Author: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2003
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1788
Book Description
Introduction to the US Food System
Author: Roni NeffPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118913051
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A public health approach to the US food system Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engaging textbook that offers students an overview of today's US food system, with particular focus on the food system's interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and society. Using a classroom-friendly approach, the text covers the core content of the food system and provides evidence-based perspectives reflecting the tremendous breadth of issues and ideas important to understanding today's US food system. The book is rich with illustrative examples, case studies, activities, and discussion questions. The textbook is a project of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), and builds upon the Center's educational mission to examine the complex interrelationships between diet, food production, environment, and human health to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the public, and to promote policies that protect health, the global environment, and the ability to sustain life for future generations. Issues covered in Introduction to the US Food System include food insecurity, social justice, community and worker health concerns, food marketing, nutrition, resource depletion, and ecological degradation. Presents concepts on the foundations of the US food system, crop production, food system economics, processing and packaging, consumption and overconsumption, and the environmental impacts of food Examines the political factors that influence food and how it is produced Ideal for students and professionals in many fields, including public health, nutritional science, nursing, medicine, environment, policy, business, and social science, among others Introduction to the US Food System presents a broad view of today's US food system in all its complexity and provides opportunities for students to examine the food system's stickiest problems and think critically about solutions.