Author : Christine Dial-Benton Ph. D.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1466954248
Author : Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469668467
Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat. Distorted views of how and what Black people eat are pervasive, bolstering the belief that they must be corrected and regulated. What is at stake is nothing less than whether Americans can learn to embrace nonracist understandings and practices in relation to food. Sustainable culture—what keeps a community alive and thriving—is essential to Black peoples' fight for access and equity, and food is central to this fight. Starkly exposing the rampant shaming and policing around how Black people eat, Williams-Forson contemplates food's role in cultural transmission, belonging, homemaking, and survival. Black people's relationships to food have historically been connected to extreme forms of control and scarcity—as well as to stunning creativity and ingenuity. In advancing dialogue about eating and race, this book urges us to think and talk about food in new ways in order to improve American society on both personal and structural levels.
Author : Lena Wilson
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781536185416
Healthy Lifestyles and Healthy Eating opens with a study wherein a review is conducted to examine non-Hispanic blacks' dietary patterns to determine the extent to which their dietary patterns conform to dietary recommendations.Next, the authors present conclusions and reflections about the role of motivation-related variables on healthy eating habits among elementary school students.Additionally, student engagement with Google Classroom as an online complementary tool in a hybrid school-based intervention to promote healthy eating among elementary school-aged children is explored and described.Some results of the EATMOT project are presented, including perceptions about healthy eating, sources of information about healthy diet and healthy motivations for food choice.A subsequent study aims to determine the role that eating motives and risk perception of potential diseases may play in adolescents' health-conscious eating behavior.The authors summarize the potential effect of moderate exercise on responsesto stressful situations, as well describe its neurobiological underlying basis in different periods of life.Pharmacy students' attitudes towards dietary supplements use are assessed through a cross-sectional questionnaire survey taken by 117 pharmacy students in the Medical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.The growing evidence regarding the influence of gender on the effectiveness of multifactorial interventions to improve lifestyles is assessed. Evidence linking maternal lifestyle to the offspring's long-term clinical outcomes is described, focusing on hypertension and cardiovascular disease risk, as well as discussing the role of epigenetic processes in metabolic syndromes.
Author : Robert L. Heath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000153088
The Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication explores the scope and purpose of risk, and its counterpart, crisis, to facilitate the understanding of these issues from conceptual and strategic perspectives. Recognizing that risk is a central feature of our daily lives, found in relationships, organizations, governments, the environment, and a wide variety of interactions, contributors to this volume explore such questions as "What is likely to happen, to whom, and with what consequences?" "To what extent can science and vigilance prevent or mitigate negative outcomes?" and "What obligation do some segments of local, national, and global populations have to help other segments manage risks?", shedding light on the issues in the quest for definitive answers. The Handbook offers a broad approach to the study of risk and crisis as joint concerns. Chapters explore the reach of crisis and risk communication, define and examine key constructs, and parse the contexts of these vital areas. As a whole, the volume presents a comprehensive array of studies that highlight the standard principles and theories on both topics, serving as the largest effort to date focused on engaging risk communication discussions in a comprehensive manner. Now available in paperback, the Handbook of Risk and Crisis Communication can be readily used in graduate coursework and individual research programs. With perspectives from psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and communication, the Handbook provides vital insights for all disciplines studying risk, and is required reading for scholars and researchers investigating risk and crisis in various contexts.
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Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Medicine
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Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Cancer
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Each issue is packed with extensive news about important cancer related science, policy, politics and people. Plus, there are editorials and reviews by experts in the field, book reviews, and commentary on timely topics.
Author : Anne Bower
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2009
Category : African American cookery
ISBN : 0252076303
Moving beyond catfish and collard greens to the soul of African American cooking
Author : Gregory D. Miller
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1040064132
Handbook of Dairy Foods and Nutrition, Third Edition examines the role of dairy products in diet and health, covering such areas as cardiovascular health, hypertension, cancer, bone, and oral health. This edition features a new chapter on dairy foods and weight management. Other chapters address lactose digestion and the contribution of dairy foods to health throughout the lifecycle. All chapters contain updated (or new) data, content, and references. With peer-reviewed chapters by nutrition and medical experts, this book remains the most subsidized reference on dairy and nutrition currently available.
Author : Kyriakos S. Markides
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 1997-09-22
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780803959743
Ethnic minorities represent a growing percentage of the elderly population in the United States. Yet, the impact of aging on minority groups and subgroups has only been partially studied. Minorities, Aging and Health fills the gap and opens the debate on how to provide for the specific needs of an increasingly elderly population. Specific issues covered in this volume include: mortality and life expectancy; the incidence of chronic disease and disabilities; diet and nutrition; mental health; access to health services and long-term care; and public health-care policy.
Author : Lawrence F. Ditmier
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781600212963
Far from a sign of healthy prosperity and contentment, overweight and obesity are now considered high risk factors for a wide range of diseases including early death and disability, heart disease, diabetes, reproductive problems, cancer, breathing problems and arthritis. Obesity, now at epidemic levels in many countries, is defined as an excessively high amount of body fat or adipose tissue in relation to lean body mass. The amount of body fat (or adiposity) includes concern for both the distribution of fat throughout the body and the size of the adipose tissue deposits. This book includes within its scope the causal connection of obesity to diseases as well as the prevention and treatment of obesity. Leading-edge scientific research from throughout the world is presented.
