Primer on US Food and Nutrition Policy and Public Health: Marion Nestle Comments

The profound influence of food policies on public health is best illustrated by the vast number of people affected by these policies. All three of the most prevalent problems in worldwide public health-undernutrition, overnutrition, and climate change- have roots in dysfunctional food systems. Hunge...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 109; no. 7; pp. 985 - 986
Main Author: Nestle, Marion
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States American Public Health Association 01.07.2019
Subjects:
Agricultural production
Agriculture
AJPH s
Beverages
Chronic illnesses
Climate Change
Diet
Dietary supplements
Editorials
Emission standards
Federal regulation
Food
Food consumption
Food processing
Food production
Food safety
Food stamps
Food systems
Government
Government agencies
Health care policy
Health Policy
Healthy food
Humans
Hunger
Infants
Labels
Malnutrition
Meals
Meat
Modes of production
Nutrition
Nutrition Policy
Nutrition research
Nutrition/Food
Obesity
Overnutrition
Overweight
Public Health
Regulatory agencies
School meals
Systems approach
Thrombosis
United States > US
Italy
ISSN:0090-0036, 1541-0048, 1541-0048
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Summary:The profound influence of food policies on public health is best illustrated by the vast number of people affected by these policies. All three of the most prevalent problems in worldwide public health-undernutrition, overnutrition, and climate change- have roots in dysfunctional food systems. Hunger and malnutrition affect more than 800 million people,1 more than two billion people are overweight and at risk for chronic disease,2 and all of us are subject to the impact of food production on climate change.3How the US food system affects public health is a matter ofintense current interest. "Food system" means the totality of processes through which food is produced, transported, sold, prepared, consumed, and wasted.4 Policies governing these processes emerged piecemeal over the past century in response to specific problems as they arose, with regulatory authority assigned to whatever agency seemed most appropriate at the time.5 Today, multiple federal agencies oversee food policies. For some policy areas, oversight is split among several agencies-the antithesis of a systems approach.
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Peer Reviewed
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305143