Description
| Product ID: | 9780774866897 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CA |
| Title: | Small Bites |
| Subtitle: | Biocultural Dimensions of Children's Food and Nutrition |
| Authors: | Author: Tina Moffat |
| Page Count: | 230 |
| Subjects: | Age groups: children, Age groups: children, Social and cultural anthropology, Popular medicine and health, Child care and upbringing: advice for parents, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Popular medicine & health, Child care & upbringing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. Picky eating. Obesity. Malnutrition. Cutting through current anxiety and hype, Small Bites challenges preconceptions about the biological basis of children’s eating habits, gendered and parent-focused responsibility, and the notion of naturally determined children’s foods. Tina Moffat draws on extensive anthropological research to explore the biological and sociocultural determinants of child nutrition and feeding. Are children naturally picky eaters? How can school meal programs help to address food insecurity and malnutrition? How has the industrial food system commodified children’s food and shaped children’s bodies? Small Bites investigates how children are fed in school and at home in Nepal, France, Japan, Canada, and the United States to reveal the ways child nutrition reflects broader cultural approaches to childhood and food. This important work also sets a course for food policy, schools, communities, and caregivers to improve children’s food and nutrition equitably and sustainably. |
| Imprint Name: | University of British Columbia Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of British Columbia Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-11-15 |
