The Political Economy of Diet, Health and Food Policy

by Fine; Ben

• ISBN13: 9780415163668
• ISBN10: 0415163668
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book presents a critical exposition of food systems theory and analyses the existing approaches to food consumption. Subjects discussed include the impact of the EU, lack of policy in the UK and resolving the diet paradox.

Table of Contents

Introduction and overview	1	(12)
Introduction	1	(8)
Overview	9	(4)
Resolving the diet paradox	13	(15)
Introduction	13	(5)
The organic content of food	18	(6)
Does Engel's Law really apply to food?	24	(3)
Concluding remarks	27	(1)
The political economy of eating disorders	28	(30)
Introduction	28	(3)
Why political economy?	31	(4)
What are eating disorders?	35	(8)
From sociocultural to socioeconomic approaches	43	(5)
Why food?	48	(5)
Why thinness? Contradictions in the political economy of body image	53	(4)
Concluding observations	57	(1)
Digesting the food and information systems	58	(38)
Introduction	58	(4)
The food information system and trickle-down of knowledge	62	(6)
What role is to be played by nutritional education?	68	(8)
The good, the bad, the commercial and the non-commercial	76	(3)
Collaboration between nutritionists and commerce?	79	(3)
The unfolding of healthy eating	82	(6)
Towards an alternative	88	(4)
Concluding remarks	92	(4)
Agricultural Support and diet	96	(20)
Introduction	96	(1)
CAP and the nation's diet	97	(11)
Lessons from the Norwegian experience: the exception that proves the rule	108	(8)
Whither food policy?	116	(5)
Notes	121	(17)
References	138	(23)
Index	161