- You must use Turabian/Chicago format, with a title page and abstract, Times New Roman, 12-point font, double spaced, one-inch margins.
- 4 scholarly sources, minimum.
- You must use footnotes.
- This paper is 5-6 pages in length, excluding the title page, abstract, and reference page.
- NO websites are allowed, If you use websites, you will fail.
- You may not use Chatgpt or you will fail.
Text: Food Fix: How to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet- one bite at a time. By Dr. Mark Hyman
Answer these questions:
Part 1:
- What is the problem? Provide a background on food policy and what problems we face.
- What are our current polices doing to our health, the economy, the environment, and our communities?
Part 2:
- Choose 1 major policy (from the list) Download (from the list)and research it. You will need 2 additional sources (scholarly) to support your assertions.
- Now, explain that policy fix and how it can improve our health, the economy, the environment, and our communities.
- What will it cost?
- Is that policy fix being done anywhere else? What are results so far?
Part 3:
- Choose 3 individual policies (from the list) Download (from the list)that college students can do daily to improve to fix our health, the economy, the environment, and our communities and explain them.
- How will they impact health, the economy, the environment, and our communities? (use 2 additional scholarly articles to support your assertions).
- Which changes are YOU willing to make? Why these? What changes are you not willing to make?
Major Polices:
- Pages 61-63= 43
- Reimburse food as medicine (prescribe food and not drugs)
- Health savings accounts
- Integrate food into healthcare
- Pages 71-75= 51; 154-157= 106; 172-173= 117
- Change food labels
- Restrict marketing to kids
- Do not allow sports teams and companies to market to kids or sponsor kids events (p. 83)
- Limit screen time for kids
- Pages 84-88= 59; 203= 138
- Tax sugary foods
- Use that tax to subsidize healthy foods (not sugar, soy, corn, wheat)
- Pages 101-105= 70: change SNAP
- Make nutrition key- so remove sugary items from approved list
- Strengthen incentives to buy produce
- Align SNAP and Medicaid (Medi cal)
- Pages 150-154= 103; 247-249= 168:
- Schools: introduce salad bars
- Eliminate processed junk foods
- Ban flavored milk
- Support farm to school programs
- Plant a garden in schools
- Teach cooking skills to kids (k-12)
Individual policies:
- Pages 51-55= 36, 89= 62: make better food choices (which ones will you make, and which are you unwilling to make)
- Stop buying sugary beverages (soda, juice)
- Sugar detox (10 day plan- which I am willing to do with you and lead you through it should you want to do this)
- Pages 123- 125= 84; 170-171= 116
- Buy non-GMO foods
- Buy organic
- Use refillable containers
- Buy locally sourced meats and produce (shop at local only stores and farmers markets)
- Choose restaurants that do not use animal products raised with antibiotics