Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-223) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Baby steps: Prenatal, infants, and young child feeding -- Biocultural variation in child feeding and eating -- Children's food in the age of the industrial diet -- It takes a village: School feeding programs -- Global malnutrition and children's food (in)security -- Childhood obesity: A twenty-first-century nutritional dilemma -- New directions in children's food and nutrition
Summary:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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