Food production and eating habits from around the world : a multidisciplinary approach / Francisco Entrena-Duran, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Entrena Durán, Francisco, editor.

Series:

Nutrition and diet research progress series.

Nutrition and Diet Research Progress

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Health aspects.

Food habits.

Nutrition.

Food supply.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together a selection of studies written by specialists from universities and/or research institutions from every continent. The processes of change in systems of production, commercialization, and consumption of food, as well as the problems and nutritional habits analyzed here, develop within the framework of the technological and socio-productive transformations experienced in many parts of the world as a consequence of the transition from traditional rural societies to the predominantly urban and industrial societies of our time. Many of these societies are affected by the

Contents:

Part I. Food production

Part II. Eating habits, physical activity, body, and health

Part III. Advertising and discourses on food

Part IV. Children's eating habits

Part V. Changes in eating habits.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 23, 2015).

ISBN:

1-63482-540-3