Feb 22 2010

Food systems affect public health: research!

I’m catching up on my reading and have just gotten to the special 2009 issue of the Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition on food systems and public health.  If you – like most public health people – don’t usually think of agriculture as a major factor in health status, the papers in this journal will come as a revelation.  They demonstrate tight links between agriculture and public health issuees such as childhood obesity, food safety, and environmental health.    Best, they are downloadable at no cost, which means they can be easily shared with students.  I will use them in my food policy class next fall.

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  • Jon
  • February 22, 2010
  • 12:51 pm

Marion – you and your readers may be interested in a free webinar that IATP is hosting tomorrow with three of the journal authors outlining some of the research and possible policy solutions. Here’s the link:

http://iatp.typepad.com/thinkforward/2010/02/join-us-for-the-webinar-bridging-food-systems-and-public-health.html

Space is limited, however.

  • Beth
  • February 22, 2010
  • 1:04 pm

I checked your “food security” tag but didn’t find the special Food Security issue of Science.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol327/issue5967/index.dtl

And I hear from the NYT post that the main article is freely available.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/a-menu-for-feeding-9-billion/

  • Anthro
  • February 22, 2010
  • 1:56 pm

Thank you Jon for the link!

I was going to ask Marion if she could put her class online or even podcast it as I find the subject fascinating. If I lived in NY I’d audit the class. I’m happy to read the papers, but I’d love the benefit of Marion’s analysis and insights.

podcast or webenar, even better. i was thinking of doing a webenar to educate public as a naturopathic physician. food as medicine or something along this line. what happens to food, nutrients, coloring agents and additives when they are in our body. how all those substances will effect your health.
so…. webenar.. great idea! invite guests!!

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