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Social Science Children's Studies

Small Bites

Biocultural Dimensions of Children's Food and Nutrition

by (author) Tina Moffat

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2022
Category
Children's Studies, Cultural, Children's Health
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774866910
    Publish Date
    Apr 2022
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774866880
    Publish Date
    Apr 2022
    List Price
    $89.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774866897
    Publish Date
    Nov 2022
    List Price
    $32.95

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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.

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Contributor Notes

Tina Moffat is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. She has published in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, among other academic journals, and is co-editor, with Tracy Prowse, of Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Past Meets Present. She is a past president of the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology.