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Outside the box : why our children need real food, not food products  Cover Image Book Book

Outside the box : why our children need real food, not food products

Marshall, Jeannie. (Author).

Summary: Discusses the way packaged and fast foods are marketed to our kids - and on how our eating habits and our family lives are being changed in the process.

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  • ISBN: 9780307360038
  • Physical Description: print
    288 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: What's inside the box? -- Discovering a food culture -- The packaged food revolution -- Scientific mothers -- When children learn to taste -- The art, science and tradition of eating -- Selling food to children -- Bad food, bad health -- Normal food -- An industrial view -- Natural food cultures -- How the world eats -- The global market -- Changing eating habits in Europe -- The pleasure of food.
Subject: Children -- Nutrition
Children -- Health and hygiene
Convenience foods -- Health aspects
Food industry and trade -- Health aspects
Lifestyles -- Health aspects
Genre: Parenting resource.

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  • 10 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Prince Rupert Library.

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  • 1 current hold with 10 total copies.
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JEANNIE MARSHALL grew up in Toronto, and lived in New York, Berlin and Madrid before moving to Italy in 2002. She has reported on a wide range of issues in Europe for such media as the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, National Post Business, enRoute, The Walrus, Quill & Quire, Canadian Living and Canadian House and Home and has worked as a freelance editor for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. As the features writer in the Life section of the National Post during the paper's first 5 years, Marshall became known for a distinctive and engaging style of storytelling. A National Magazine Award finalist, she and her husband and young son live in Rome.


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