Small Bites

Biocultural Dimensions of Children's Food and Nutrition

By Tina Moffat
Categories: Health, Social Work & Psychology, Health & Medicine, Social Sciences, Family Studies, Anthropology, Food & Cooking
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774866880, 230 pages, April 2022
Paperback : 9780774866897, 230 pages, November 2022
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774866903, 230 pages, April 2022
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774866910, 230 pages, April 2022
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Table 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

Description

Overnutrition? Undernutrition? Cutting through current anxiety and hype, Small Bites answers key questions about child nutrition and eating by exploring their biological and sociocultural determinants. Are children naturally picky eaters? How can school meals help to address food insecurity and malnutrition? How has the industrial food system commodified children’s food and shaped children’s bodies? Tina Moffat investigates the feeding of children in school and at home around the world, revealing the influence of varied cultural approaches to childhood and food. This important work sets a course for food policy, schools, communities, and caregivers to improve children’s food and nutrition.