Academic Resources: topical resources: food, eating & diet
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FoodNews, Global Food Policy Updates
Historical Food Guides Background and Development, this slide collection traces the history of U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Guides from 1894 to the present. Food and Nutrition Information Center
NCMHD Center of Excellence for Nutritional Genomics, a website dedicated to promoting the new science of nutritional genomics. Nutrigenomics.UCDavis.edu is a provider of news, information, and commentary on current developments and breakthroughs in fields of nutrition, genomics, and health.
World Food Habits Bibiography, English-Language Resources for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition
Public Health Nutrition resources
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organizations
Association for the Study of Food & Society
International Commission on the Anthropology of Food
publications
journals:
AOF, a webjournal dedicated to the Sociology and Anthropology of food
AOF is a bilingual academic journal in French and English. It aims to publish results of latest research in Sociology and Anthropology of Food.
Digest, an Interdisciplinary Study of Food and Foodways
Published by the American Folklore Society.
Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment
Food and Foodways is a refereed, interdisciplinary, and international journal devoted to publishing original scholarly articles on the history and culture of human nourishment. By reflecting on the role food plays in human relations, this unique journal explores the powerful but often subtle ways in which food has shaped, and shapes, our lives socially, economically, politically, mentally, nutritionally, and morally. Because food is a pervasive social phenomenon, it cannot be approached by any one discipline. We encourage articles that engage dialogue, debate, and exchange across disciplines. Food and Foodways publishes work by anthropologists, biologists, economists, ethnobotanists, historians, literary critics, nutritionists, psychologists, sociologists, and others who use food as a lens of analysis. We also seek review essays or short topical pieces that are provocative and problematic in nature.
"Food Assistance Landscape, March 2006" by Victor Oliveira in Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB6-2) 6 pp, February 2006. One in five Americans participates in at least one of USDA's food and nutrition assistance programs during the year. In fiscal 2005, an estimated 55 percent of USDA's budget supported the programs that provide children and low-income people with access to food, a healthful diet, and nutrition education. The Economic Research Service (ERS) is responsible for conducting studies and evaluations of USDA's food assistance programs. The Food Assistance Landscape March 2006 uses preliminary data from USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to examine trends in the food assistance programs through fiscal 2005 (October 1, 2004, to September 30, 2005). It also discusses a recent ERS study that examined patterns of entry into and exit from the Food Stamp Program.
Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, the official peer-reviewed journal of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS). The ASFS is an international organization dedicated to exploring the complex relationships among food, culture, and society from numerous disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as in the world of food beyond the academy.
Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture
reports and other publications:
Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (AHPRC): a collection of papers on food security
Resource Library, from the Canadian National Eating Disorder Information Centre (NEDIC)
Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research
The purpose of the Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research is to provide a guide for coordinating obesity research activities across the NIH and for enhancing the development of new research efforts based on identification of areas of greatest scientific opportunity and challenge. The Strategic Plan represents a cohesive, multi-dimensional research agenda for addressing the problem of obesity. It includes short-, intermediate-, and long-term goals for basic, clinical, and population-based obesity research, along with strategies for achieving those goals that likewise range in timeframe. Building on scientific advances from previous NIH-supported efforts, the Strategic Plan seeks to maximize collaboration among the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICs) and to capitalize on their expertise and interest in developing obesity research initiatives.
The Nutrition Transition Program, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This research program, under the direction of Barry Popkin, has developed or uses a series of national surveys which constitute a set of large nationwide monitoring systems. Such surveys can be used to understand long-term changes in individual dietary intake, health behavior, and nutritional and health status. Within ongoing projects, a wide range of questions related to food intake patterns and trends can be examined in a series of ongoing longitudinal survey research projects in the Russian Federation, China, South Africa, and the Philippines.
academic units
The Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health
New York University
Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink
The University of Adelaide, South Australia
updated April 19, 2007