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 Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity

Introduction to the US Food System Public Health Environment and Equity 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Food Systems
The Food System as a System
Focus 1.1. Complex Adaptive Systems
Focus 1.2. Food in the Food System
Public Health
The US Food System: An Overview
Perspective 1.1. When Your Boat Rocks, You Want Resilience Not Efficiency
Focus 1.3. Principles of a Healthy, Sustainable Food System
Part 1 Outcomes
Chapter 2 Food System Public Health Effects
Dietary Health
Perspective 2.1. Gut Bacteria, Diets and Inflammation
Occupational and Environmental Health
Focus 2.1. Pesticides and Children’s Health
Focus 2.2. Food System Workers at Risk
Food Safety
Focus 2.3. Bisphenol-A: A Ubiquitous Food System Contaminant
Chapter 3 Ecological Threats to and from Food Systems
Status of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services Essential to Food Systems
Focus 3.1. Assessing Ecological Integrity of Food Systems
Focus 3.2. Farmland Protection
Focus 3.3. Virtual Water and Food Systems
Processes Through Which Ecological Health is Threatened
Moving Toward More Environmentally Sustainable Practices
Perspective 3.1. A Farmer’s Thoughts on Defining Sustainable Farming
Perspective 3.2. Consumer Perceptions of Environmentally Sustainable Foods
Chapter 4 The Food System and Health Inequities
Health Inequities and Food Systems in the United States
Perspective 4.1. Foodies on a Mission
Elaborating the Pathways
Perspective 4.2. Realizing Justice in Local Food Systems
Perspective 4.3. The People Who Touch Your Food
Perspective 4.4. Contract Chicken Farming
Perspective 4.5. Food, Equity, and Health: Making the Connections in Public Health Practice
Chapter 5 Public Health Implications of Household Food Insecurity
Definition, Distribution, and Determinants of Food Insecurity
Perspective 5.1. Witnesses to Hunger: Participation by Those Who Know Poverty and Hunger Firsthand
Nutrition Assistance Programs
Perspective 5.2. The Wrong Path Forward: Restricting Food Choices in SNAP
Perspective 5.3. A Defense of Excluding Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value from SNAP
Perspective 5.4. The Public Health Case for Universal Free School Meals
Focus 5.1. What Do People Do When They Are Worried about Feeding Their Families?
Broader Perspectives
Chapter 6 Community Food Security
History and Evolution of CFS
Focus 6.1. Food Hubs: Supporting Healthy Farms, Healthy People, Healthy Economy
Measuring Community Food Security
CFS Policies at Multiple Levels
How Does CFS Change Happen?
Focus 6.2. Case Study: Iowa Food Systems Council, a Second-Generation Food Policy Council
CFS and Public Health
Challenges for the CFS Field
Perspective 6.1. The City That Ended Hunger
Part 2 Drivers of the Food System
Chapter 7 Food System Economics
Economics Boiled Down: Models, Optimization, Equilibrium, and Social Optimality
Agriculture and Food Production
Food Manufacturing and the Food Supply Chain
Focus 7.1. Price Transmission in the Distribution System: Retail Responses to Supply Price Changes
Food Consumption
Focus 7.2. US Farm Subsidies Do Not Make Americans Fat
Focus 7.3. Recent Progress in Private Sector Voluntary Initiatives to Promote Healthy Eating
Chapter 8 Policies That Shape the US Food System
Federal Food System Legislation: The Process
Focus 8.1. Turning Policy Ideas into Legislative Realities
How Alliances Shape Policy
Focus 8.2. A Brief Look at Agenda-Setting, Policy Analysis, and Food Systems
The Policy-Making Process and the Role of Stakeholders: The Farm Bill as an Example
The History of US Food and Agriculture Policy: An Overview
Perspective 8.1. Why America’s Food is Still Not Safe
Perspective 8.2. Produce Imports
The Politics of Food System Policy: The Farm Bill as an Example
How Policy Drives the Future Food System: The Role of Price
State and Local Policy
Focus 8.3. Preemption and Local Food and Agriculture Policies
Chapter 9 Food, Culture, and Society
Culture and Food
Perspective 9.1. Beyond White Bread, a Better Society?
Foodways and Identity
Food As Ritual
Focus 9.1. Food and Faith
Food, Healing, and Health Beliefs
Food and Gender
Food, Power, and Politics: Food Movements
Perspective 9.2. Zombies, Food Writing, and Agribusiness Apocalypse
Implications For Food Systems
Chapter 10 Promotional Marketing: A Driver of the Modern Food System
What Are Food Marketing and Promotion?
Types of Food Promotion
Focus 10.1. “Supermarketing” and the Impact on Food Choice
Segmentation and Targeting in Food Promotion
Focus 10.2. POP! Point-of-Purchase Nutrition Labels Are Everywhere: Who Benefits?
Extent of Food Promotion
Where Promotional Marketing Fits Into the Modern Food System
Dietary Effects of Promotional Marketing
Perspective 10.1. Front Groups: Who is Shaping the Conversation about Health and Wellness?
Responses From Government and Industry
Part 3 Food Supply Chain: From Seed to Sales
Chapter 11 Crop Production and Food Systems
History of Farming Systems—From Local to Industrial
Traditional Systems in the United States
Emergence of an Industrial Agriculture
Perspective 11.1. The Relevance of Genetically Engineered Crops to Sustainable Agriculture
Industrial Crop Farming: An Overview
Focus 11.1. The Proliferation of Corn
Farms Producing for Local and Regional Markets
Perspective 11.2. A Bright Future for Farmers in the “Middle”?
Agroecology and Organic Farming
Crop Production—Impacts on Environment, Food Security, Public Health, and Society
Chapter 12 Food Animal Production
Focus 12.1. Seafood Harvest and Production
Industrialization of Food Animal Production
Perspective 12.1. Husbandry and Industry: Animal Agriculture, Animal Welfare, and Human Health
Public Health Impacts of IFAP
Focus 12.2. A Case Study in Rural Community Exposures: Yakima Valley, Washington
Perspective 12.2. Living in Duplin County
Global and Ecological Concerns
Agroecological Approaches to Food Animal Production
Policy and Dietary Change
Focus 12.3. The Pew Commission on IFAP: Policy Recommendations and Barriers to Reform
Chapter 13 Food Processing and Packaging
Food Processing
Perspective 13.1. Food Technology: Equal Partner for a Healthy Future
Perspective 13.2. Ten Food Secrets You Need to Know
How Do We Process Foods?
Focus 13.1. On the History of Freshness
Food Packaging
Food Processing and Packaging: Challenges
Perspective 13.3. Ultra-Processing and a New Classification of Foods
Food Processing and the Environment
Chapter 14 Food Distribution
Primary Segments of the Food Distribution System
Evolution of US Food Distribution
Perspective 14.1. The Impact of Walmart
Perspective 14.2. Walmarting the Food Chain
Focus 14.1. The Growth of Private Label Products in the US Supermarket Sector
System Trends in Consumer Expenditures
Focus 14.2. Regional Food Systems
Focus 14.3. Local Food Systems
The Future of Retail Food Distribution
Part 4 Food in Communities and on Tables
Chapter 15 Food Consumption in the United States
Changing Eating Patterns
Focus 15.1. Methods for Assessing Diets of Individuals
Focus 15.2. National Dietary Surveys in the United States
Perspective 15.1. The Supersizing of America: A Time for Action
Meal Patterns—When We Eat
What We Eat
Focus 15.3. What about the Food That’s Not Eaten? Food Waste in America and Its Ecological Impacts
Chapter 16 Nutrition
Perspective 16.1. Consumer Perspectives
What Is Nutrition?
Nutrients 101
Focus 16.1. The Science behind Food and Addiction and the Potential Impact on the Food System
Other Nutrients
Other Considerations: Additives and Naturally Occurring Chemicals In Food; Organic Food
Perspective 16.2. Reasonable Certainty of No Harm?
Public Health Nutrition Approaches
Chapter 17 Healthy Food Environments
What Is a Food Environment?
Focus 17.1. Measuring the Food Environment
Equity
Perspective 17.1. Connecting Civil Rights to Contemporary Food Justice
Homes, Schools, Workplaces
Perspective 17.2. Striving for “Food Service for a Sustainable Future”
The Built Food Environment
Focus 17.2. Is There a Map for That? Using GIS Maps to Understand Our Food Systems
Focus 17.3. Connecting People and Their Food Systems: Why Gardens Matter
Chapter 18 Intervening to Change Eating Patterns: How Can Individuals and Societies Effect Lasting C
Designing Successful Dietary Change Interventions
Focus 18.1. Framing Public Health Messages to Improve Diet: Taking Measures to Avoid Weight Stigma
Case Studies
Focus 18.2. Meatless Monday: A Simple Idea That Sparked a Movement
Focus 18.3. Real Food Challenge
Perspective 18.1. Building a Better Food Environment
Future Directions For Dietary Change Interventions
Glossary
Photo Credits
Index
EULA
 

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