From Famine to Fast Food: Nutrition, Diet, and Concepts of Health around the World

By: Darra Goldstein and Jessica B. Harris and Ken Albala and Ramin Ganeshram and Liora Gvion and Peter Barrett and Jonathan Deutsch and Emily Stone and Liza Debevec and E. N. Anderson and Carol Selva Rajah and Amy Riolo and Helen Saberi and Penny Van Esterik and Richard Wilk and Rebecca Moore and Melanie Haupt and Nicole Tarulevicz and Cynthia Clampitt and Fabio Parasecoli and Kathleen Ryan and Michael Ashkenazi and Charles Perry and Fiona Ross and Henry Notaker and Bruce Kraig and Andrea Macrae and Laura Mason and Signe Rousseau and Kate Johnston and Hanna Garth and Peter Scholliers and Suzanne Piscopo and Nathalie Dupree and Diana Mincyte and Lois Stanford and Andrea Broomfield and Carla Guerrón Montero and Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer and Nawal Nasrallah and Zilkia Janer and Julia Abramson and M. Shahrim Al-Karim and Laura P. Appell-Warren and Heather Arndt-Anderson and Babette Audant and Gabriela Villagran Backman and Carolyn Bánfalvi and Cynthia D. Bertelsen and Megan K. Blake and Neil L. Coletta and Paul Crask and Anita Verna and Deborah Duchon and Pamela Elder and Rachel Finn and Richard Foss and Nancy G. Freeman and Mary Gee and Che Ann Abdul Ghani and Maja Godina-Golija and Annie Goldberg and Keiko Goto and Mary Gunderson and Cherie Y. Hamilton and Ursula Heinzelmann and Jennifer Hostetter and Kelila Jaffe and Brelyn Johnson and Desiree Koh and R. J. Krajewski and Erin Laverty and Robert A. Leonard and Jane Levi and Yrsa Lindqvist and William G. Lockwood and Yvonne R. Lockwood and Janet Long-Solís and Kristina Lupp and Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Glenn R. Mack and Giorgos Maltezakis and Bertie Mandelblatt and Marty Martindale and Anton Masterovoy and Anne Engammare Mcbride and Michael R. Mcdonald and Naomi M. Mcpherson and Katrina Meynink and Barbara J. Michael and Kelly O’ Leary and Susan Ji-Young Park and Rosemary Parkinson and Irina Petrosian and Theresa Preston-Werner and Meg Ragland and Birgit Ricquier and Owen Roberts and Cari Sánchez and Colleen Taylor and Roger Serunyigo and Dorette Snover and Celia Sorhaindo and Lyra Spang and Aliza Stark and Maria "Ging" Gutierrez Steinberg and Anita Stewart and Asele Surina and Aylin Öney Tan and Karen Lau Taylor and Thy Tran and Leena Trivedi-Grenier and Karin Vaneker and Chelsie Yount and Marcia Zoladz

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Synopsis: The foods eaten by a nation's population play a key role in shaping the health of that society. This book presents country-specific information on how diet, food security, and concepts of health critically impact the well-being of the world's population.A country's food culture and eating habits directly impact the health and well-being of its citizens. Economic factors contribute to problems such as obesity and malnourishment. This book examines how diet affects health in countries around the world, discussing how the availability of food and the types of foods eaten influence numerous health factors and are tied to the prevalence of "lifestyle" diseases. Readers will discover the importance of diet and food culture in determining human health as well as make connections and notice larger trends within multicultural, international contexts.An ideal aid for high school and college students in completing research and writing assignments, this book supplies detailed diet- and health-related information about most major countries and regions in a single source. Each country profile will also include a convenient fact box with statistical information such as life expectancy, average caloric intake, and other health indicators.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9798216087625
Related ISBNs:: 9781610697439
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Addition:: 06/03/23
Copyrighted By:: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Reference, Health, Mind and Body, Social Studies, Medicine
Reading Age:: 7–17
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ken Albala