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Aleck Samuel Ostry
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$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 11/8/2006
ISBN: 9780774813273
$34.95 Paperback
Release Date: 7/1/2007
ISBN: 9780774813280
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About the Book
Nutrition Policy in Canada, 1870-1939 examines the beginnings and early evolution of nutrition policy developments, mainly at the federal level, from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War. It outlines the development of a national system of food safety and surveillance, the federal government’s early policy focus on infant feeding, and the factors leading to the establishment of a national dietary standard.
Aleck Ostry shows how the medical profession became actively involved in dispensing nutritional advice during the interwar years. As the economy worsened, Canada conducted dietary surveys in an attempt to determine the nutritional status of its citizens. The country also instituted the world’s first modern national dietary standard, and by the eve of the Second World War had developed a national nutrition policy institution, the Canadian Council on Nutrition. Ostry surveys these early developments in the context of changing food security concerns, particularly during the challenging economic times of the 1930s, when, paradoxically, the health status of the population improved dramatically in spite of widespread hardship.
With food security issues often in the headlines, Nutrition Policy in Canada, 1870-1939 tells a timely and relevant story that will resonate not only with scholars but also with policy makers and practitioners in nutrition and community health.
About the Author(s)
Aleck S. Ostry holds a Canada Research Chair and is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Table of Contents
Contents
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Establishing a Food Surveillance System in Canada
2 Infant Mortality, Malnutrition, and Social Reform Prior to the First World War
3 The Medical Profession and Infant Feeding to the 1920s
4 Cow’s Milk: A New Image for the 1920s
5 The First National Infant Feeding Guidelines in Canada
6 Food Safety and Marketing and the Role of the Medical Profession in Dispensing Nutritional Advice in the 1930s
7 Food Supply during the Depression
8 Mortality from Nutritional Deficiency Diseases during the Depression
9 The Canadian Council on Nutrition and the First National Dietary Standard
Conclusion
References
Index
Reviews
The strength of this book is the quality of the historical methods used, including careful attention to data sources, interpretation, and organization of facts…with a strong concluding chapter [this book] recommends lessons from history that we might wish to - and should - apply to ensure sound nutrition policy in Canada today.
-Lynn McIntyre, Canadian Medical Association Journal, May 22, 2007
In an era when it sometimes seems that too many people are publishing too many books about the same thing, it’s such a relief to find a book that covers a topic no one has come even close to covering.... Ostry’s book is therefore a very welcome piece of work. It is well researched, setting a methodological standard for what a nutrition history should entail, with significant attention to archival materials and early surveys, statistics and texts.
- E. Melanie DuPuis, International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Volume 15 (2), December 2007
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
Public Policy
History > Canada
Health/Medicine
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