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The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food
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Lecture 1 - Introduction: What We Eat, Why We Eat and the Key Role of Food in Modern Life
Frames eating as a topic involving biological preferences, psychological meanings, marketing and the wider organisation of food systems.
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Lecture 2 - Food Then, Food Now: Modern Food Conditions and Their Mismatch with Evolution
Presents an evolutionary-mismatch explanation of why preferences shaped in earlier food environments may operate differently in modern ones.
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Lecture 3 - Biology, Nutrition and Health I: What We Eat
Examines ways of measuring food intake, differences between individual and population measures, and errors in reporting portions and nutrition.
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Lecture 4 - Biology, Nutrition and Health II: What Helps Us and Hurts Us
Reviews difficulties in researching diet–health relationships and translating that research into dietary recommendations.
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Lecture 5 - Biology, Nutrition and Health III: The Psychology of Taste and Addiction
Explores taste, biological influences on eating and body-weight regulation, including methods used to investigate genetic contributions.
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Lecture 6 - Culture and the Remarkable Plasticity of Eating (Presentation by Ashley Gearhardt)
Combines Ashley Gearhardt's presentation of an addiction model of eating with Kelly Brownell's discussion of cultural food practices.
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Lecture 7 - Hunger in the World of Plenty
Discusses measuring hunger, consequences of starvation and the geopolitical circumstances that affect access to food.
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Lecture 8 - Nutrition Transition and Global Food Issues
Examines changing diets, activity patterns and disease burdens in a global context, introducing case studies from China, India, South Africa and Finland.
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Lecture 12 - Public Health vs. Medical Models in Nutrition Change: Saving Lives One or a Million at a Time
Contrasts population prevention with individual medical approaches and introduces levels of prevention, study methods and standards of proof.
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Lecture 13 - Eating Disorders and Obesity (Guest Lecture by B. Timothy Walsh)
Timothy Walsh discusses eating disorders, clinical complications, diagnostic problems and explanations involving interacting vulnerabilities.
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Lecture 15 - Economics, Nutrition and Health: Subsidies, Food Deserts and More
Discusses how subsidies, prices, neighbourhood conditions and poverty can shape food access and choices.
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Lecture 16 - Everyone but Me: The Pervasive Reach and Powerful Influence of Food Marketing on Food Choices
Examines food advertising, character licensing, product placement and marketing within schools, with particular concern for children.
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Lecture 17 - The Politics of Food I: How Politics Affects National Nutrition Policy (Guest Lecture by Rogan Kersh)
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Lecture 18 - The Politics of Food II: The Issues, the Fights and Who Controls the Frame
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Lecture 20 - Schools and Nutrition: Where Health and Politics Collide (Guest Lecture by Marlene B. Schwartz)
Marlene Schwartz discusses school-food policy, research on policy changes and her experience as a parent advocate.
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Lecture 21 - The Morphing of the Modern Diet (Guest Lecture by Brian Wansink)
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