Identifying and Addressing Childhood Food Insecurity in Healthcare and Community Settings - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This salient resource offers clinicians a comprehensive multi-tiered framework for identifying, addressing, and reducing food insecurity among children and their families. Reinforcing the importance of food insecurity as a key social determinant of health, this monograph reviews the epidemiology and presents in-depth guidelines for screening for food insecurity and hunger. Recommendations for screening in a busy clinical setting as well as the strengths and limitations of widely-used instruments are discussed. The monograph also outlines a variety of clinic-level interventions, potential community-based resources, and opportunities for clinical-community partnerships to improve families'' food access and security. Further, contributors provide workable plans for large-scale advocacy through greater engagement with professional and community resources as well as policymakers. The monograph concludes with an outline of the critical steps to implement a food insecurity screening process and the key components to train the next generation of provider-advocates. Included in the coverage: - Epidemiology and pathophysiology of food insecurity - Screening tools and training - Scope of interventions to address food insecurity - Creation and evaluation of the impact of food insecurity-focused clinical-community partnerships on patients and populations - Development of an action plan to fight food insecurity Identifying and Addressing Childhood Food Insecurity in Healthcare and Community Settings will find an engaged audience among physicians and other clinicians who want to address food insecurity in their healthcare and/or community setting. Institutions that are starting to address social determinants of health, including food insecurity, will find guidance on screening tools, processes and evaluation of impact.

Biofuels and Food Security - Biofuel Impact on Food Security in Brazil, Asia and Major Producing Countries - Tatsuji Koizumi

Examining the relationship between biofuels and food security, this book presents an economic analysis of the competition between biofuels and food. Furthermore it demonstrates that not only feedstock of agricultural product-based biofuels, but also cellulose-based biofuels can compete with food-related demand and agricultural resources.

Resilience and Food Security in a Food Systems Context - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book assesses rigorously and critically the contribution of the concept of resilience in advancing our understanding and ability to design and implement development interventions in relation to food security and humanitarian crises. For this, the book departs from the narrow beaten tracks of agriculture and trade, which have influenced the mainstream debate on food security for nearly 60 years, and adopts instead a wider, more holistic perspective, framed around food systems. The foundation for this new approach is the recognition that in the current post-globalization era, the food and nutritional security of the world''s population no longer depends just on the performance of agriculture and policies on trade, but rather on the capacity of the entire (food) system to produce, process, transport and distribute safe, affordable and nutritious food for all, in ways that remain environmentally sustainable. In that context, adopting a food system perspective provides a more appropriate frame as it incites to broaden the conventional thinking and to acknowledge the systemic nature of the different processes and actors involved. This book is written for a large audience, from academics to policymakers, students to practitioners. This is an open access book.

Digesting Femininities - The Feminist Politics of Contemporary Food Culture - Bog af Natalie Jovanovski - Paperback

This volume addresses how the rhetoric of feminist empowerment has been combined with mainstream representations of food, thus creating a cultural consciousness around food and eating that is unmistakably pathological.

Food Economics - William A. Masters - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Food Economics provides a unified introduction to the economics of agricultural production, business decisions, consumer behavior, and the government policies that shape our food system. This open access textbook begins with economic principles derived using graphical techniques to explain and predict observed prices, quantities, and other outcomes as a result of individual choices influenced by market structure and public policies. The second half of the book explores available data globally and for the US, covering a wide range of questions in agriculture and economic development, food marketing, and consumption. Food Economics and its accompanying online resources are designed for advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate courses in agriculture, food, and nutrition policy. The book covers the standard diagrams taught in principles-level courses, with concrete examples and practical insights regarding food production, consumption, and trade. Online resources include data sources, and course materials, including slides, exercises, exams, and answer keys.

Energy Recovery from Agro-Food Waste - Pedro Aguilar Zarate - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

As is well known, fossil fuels and food waste are significant contributors to the climate change crisis. Conversion of food waste to energy can help solving or mitigating these problems by providing a sustainable energy alternative to fossil fuels.

Biological Treatment of Waste and By-Products from Food Industry - Wojciech Czekala - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses selected waste and by-products of the food industry. The book is aimed at food industry specialists, waste management specialists, scientists, and students. However, the book describes problems in an accessible way, which will make this book useful for beginners in the waste/biogas/composting sector.

Meat Less: The Next Food Revolution - Bog af David Julian McClements - Paperback

Reducing the amount of meat in our diet would have major environmental benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, deforestation, and biodiversity loss. Moreover, it would have wide-ranging ethical benefits by decreasing the huge number of livestock animals confined and killed each year for food. For consumers, there may also be health benefits from a meat-less diet, provided it was carefully planned. Advances in modern science and technology, including plant-based, microbial,..

Allergens and Airway Hyperreactivity

Respiratory allergy is constantly encountered and is sharply on the rise, particularly in the two most vulnerable age-groups: young children and seniors.

The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in the Arab Region - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This book investigates the need for a more open and interdisciplinary dialogue on the nexus of food, water and energy security in the Arab region. It argues that achieving sustainable economic development is irretrievably tied to the security of the water–energy–food nexus, which is in turn essential for bringing about sustained peace. Further, it discusses various approaches to achieving these lofty objectives, and offers the following take-away messages: - The Arab region is currently under considerable water stress, and the situation will continue to get worse with a number of global changes – most notably those related to climate and regional water distribution. - Viable solutions are available in the Arab region and can be implemented through innovative policies, judicious use of new technologies, and stimulating public opinion. - Integration across water, energy, and food sectors is obviously needed but achieving it in practice is extremely challenging. - There are some gaps in the scientific understanding but at the same time there is a wealth of data and synthesized information that can guide decision-making. 1)

Branching Process Models of Cancer - Richard Durrett

This volume develops results on continuous time branching processes and applies them to study rate of tumor growth, extending classic work on the Luria-Delbruck distribution. As applications, the author evaluate ovarian cancer screening strategies and give rigorous proofs for results of Heano and Michor concerning tumor metastasis.

The Art and Science of Aerated Foods - Grant Murray Campbell - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

The Art and Science of Aerated Foods highlights the unnoticed ingredient of air in food: its importance, function and processes. The text offers readers fundamental knowledge on the techniques and ingredients involved in making aerated food through selected recipes, along with insight into each food's cultural background.

Clinician's Manual Treatment of Hypertension - Franz H. Messerli - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

This comprehensive pocketbook provides a foundation in best-practice guidance screening, assessing, treating, and monitoring patients with hypertension, with reference to up-to-date clinical guidelines. Prevention strategies and recent drug developments are also highlighted, including the most exciting and relevant treatment advances in the past 5 years. Hypertension is one of the most common medical conditions, with an estimated one billion people worldwide affected. Because hypertension affects so many and spans across all ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic classes, nearly all clinicians encounter patients with hypertension on regular basis. The Clinician''s Manual: Treating Hypertension, 4th edition provides a foundation in best-practice guidance screening, assessing, treating, and monitoring patients with hypertension, with reference to up-to-date clinical guidelines. Prevention strategies and recent drug developments are also highlighted, including the most exciting and relevant treatment advances in the past 5 years.

Eating, Drinking: Surviving - The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU - Bog - Paperback

This publication addresses the global challenges of food and water security in a rapidly changing and complex world.

Novel Foods and Edible Insects in the European Union - - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

- Introduction: Feeding the Future Sustainably-What Role for Novel Foods and Edible Insects?. - Part I Novel Foods: A Necessary Premise. - Novel Foods in the EU Integrated Administrative Space: An Institutional Perspective. - A Peculiar Category of Novel Foods: Traditional Foods Coming from Third Countries and the Regulatory Issues Involving Sustainability, Food Security, Food Safety, and the Free Circulation of Goods. - Food (In)Security: The Role of Novel Foods on Sustainability. - Why ''New'' Foods Are Safe and How They Can Be Assessed. - Part II Edible Insects. - Legislative and Judicial Challenges on Insects for Human Consumption: From Member States to the EU, Passing Through the Court of Justice of the EU. - The Safety Assessment of Insects and Products Thereof As Novel Foods in the European Union. - Consumer Perceptions and Acceptance of Insects As Feed and Food: Current Findings and Future Outlook.

Procedures to Investigate Waterborne Illness - Bog af International Association for Food Protection - Paperback

Written by a team of international experts, this third edition designed to guide public health personnel or teams in any country that investigates reports of alleged waterborne illnesses. The manual is based on epidemiologic principles and investigative techniques that have been found effective in determining causal factors of disease incidence. The guidelines are presented in the sequence usually followed during investigations and are organized so that an investigator can easily find the information..

Allergic to Life - Frank Lichtenberger

This easy-to-read title provides a comprehensive discussion of the major changes in daily life that have led to states of increased bodily inflammation.  Indeed, today there is an epidemic of allergic and autoimmune disease in the first and developing world. While outdoor climate change is now considered common knowledge, the impact of longer work hours, artificial lighting, increased food shelf life, and changes to the microbiome all have made a large impact in increasing allergies worldwide. ..

Food, Environmental Degradation and Injustices - Simon Sneddon - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Water and the Future of Humanity - Revisiting Water Security - Bog af Gulbenkian Think Tank on Water and the Future of Humankind - Paperback

It further shines a light on changes needed in the way we use food, energy, and other goods and services in relation to water, and offers projections and recommendations, up to 2050, that apply to water access challenges facing the poor and the common misuse of water in industry, agriculture, and municipalities.