Small Bites - Biocultural Dimensions of Children's Food and Nutrition

Small Bites travels the globe to show how biology and culture influence how children eat, and how child nutrition can be made more equitable and sustainable.

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
1 Baby Steps: Prenatal, Infant, and Young Child Feeding
2 Biocultural Variation in Child Feeding and Eating
3 Children's Food in the Age of the Industrial Diet
4 It Takes a Village: School Feeding Programs
5 Global Malnutrition and Children's Food (In)Security
6 Childhood Obesity: A Twenty-First Century Nutritional Dilemma
7 New Directions in Children's Food and Nutrition
References; Notes; Index

About the author

Tina Moffat

Summary

Small Bites travels the globe to show how biology and culture influence how children eat, and how child nutrition can be made more equitable and sustainable.

Product details

• Authors: Tina Moffat
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.2022
• EAN: 9780774866897
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-6689-7
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Illnesses, therapies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories