Study guide notes needed for Sustainable Nutrition and Food Systems
Quick study guide notes (in simple terns for better understanding)
Chapter 1:
● Define a systems approach to food systems.
● Describe a public health approach to assessing food systems.
● Provide a broad overview of the US food system including key components and challenges.
● Discuss different approaches to food system challenges including public health and human rights.
● Consider key food system challenges.
Chapter 2:
● Describe major diet related conditions, their health and economic impacts, and their dietary risk factors.
● Describe some of the occupational and environmental health risks associated with food and agricultural
industries.
● Provide some examples of potential chemical and microbial hazards in food, the health effects of
food-borne contamination and points where the food supply may be contaminated.
Chapter 3:
● Understand why food production depends on ecological integrity and ecosystem services.
● Describe how food systems have affected the status of land, oceans, freshwater, genetic diversity, energy
resources, and ecosystem services.
● Be aware of some leading ways to assess the ecological integrity of the food system.
● Describe agroecology, provide specific examples of agroecology practices, and compare their
environmental impacts to that of the industrialized food system.
● Consider the impacts of environmental degradation and lack of ecological integrity on public health.
Chapter 4:
● Define health inequities and health disparities.
● Understand the health Inequities Model and the relationships between its components.
● Discuss the root causes of food system-related health inequities.
● Discuss how inequities play out in the food system.
● Discuss potential equity-related pitfalls affecting well-meaning efforts to improve the food system.
Chapter 5:
● Define household food insecurity and discuss the root causes.
● Understand the health consequences and correlates of food insecurity.
● Identify mechanism by which food insecurity is related to poor physical and mental health in children and
adults.
● Recognize and understand key nutrition assistance programs.
● Identify solutions to household food insecurity.
Chapter 6:
● Describe the concept of Community Food Security (CFS) and how it complements other food
system-related approaches.
● Understand the benefits of CFS and describe relevant examples.
● Describe the policy strategies of CFS at the city, state, and national level.
● Explain the limitations of CFS.
Other:
● Define whole grains and understand the health benefits over refined and processed grains.
● Explain the how the loss of knowledge about how food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, and
prepared affects public health.
● Identify the benefits of food traditions and rituals.