Food Choices: The Ultimate Teen Guide

by Robin F. Brancato

Overview

There are a host of books on dieting, nutrition, cooking, and all other areas related to food, yet books targeted to teens tend to emphasize weight and the dangers of unhealthy eating. Food Choices: The Ultimate Teen Guide provides teens with a new look at food and eating. In this book, author Robin Brancato chooses not to dwell on food-related pathologies like anorexia, bulimia, or obesity. Instead, she guides teens into a greater knowledge and enjoyment of food and healthy eating.

This book discusses numerous topics related to food and eating, including the biological and chemical reasons we prefer certain foods and the eating habits that are unique to teens today. This book also covers the latest medical research, the vast amount of literature on weight loss and dieting, and the cultural influences that affect what food we eat. Throughout, teens are presented with the best tips on how to develop healthy eating habits for a lifetime of enjoying food.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810869783
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/19/2010
Series:	It Happened to Me Series , #28
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	7 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Robin F. Brancato is the author of Money: Getting It, Using It, and Avoiding the Traps: The Ultimate Teen Guide (Scarecrow, 2007).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

1 So Nice Here at the Top of the Food Chain 1

2 What Kind of Eater Are You? 17

3 What Does Your Body Need? 37

4 The Great Weight Debate 61

5 Family Eating 85

6 Bringing Food Home 99

7 How Safe Is the Food You Eat? 113

8 Want to Cook? 129

9 What Did You Eat in School Today? 149

10 Eating Out 167

11 Going to Extremes 183

12 Eating around the World 195

13 The Future of Food 207

Index 221

About the Author 227

Editorial Reviews

This handbook, written for teenagers, presents information on healthy eating and making good food choices. Brancato, a young adult author, covers numerous food related topics such as cultural food preferences, food safety, weight loss, nutrition, shopping, cooking, and eating out. Organized into thirteen chapters, the information is often arranged in boxes with quotes from teenagers along the sidebar. Black and white photographs appear throughout the work.

Inc. Book News

Gr 7–10—In a conversational tone, Brancato talks about what, how, why, where, and when teens eat. Chapter headings include: "What Kind of Eater Are You?," "What Does Your Body Need?," "The Great Weight Debate," "How Safe Is the Food You Eat?," "School Food," "Eating Out," "Eating around the World," and "The Future of Food." Although the breadth of the topics is wide, the information is superficial, and sometimes opinion is stated as fact. Throughout the text, vignettes and photos give young people's views on food-related issues. These sidebars and pictures break up the text and add immediacy to the presentation but offer little in the way of solid information. Topics that might constitute a volume of their own, such as genetically modified food, are discussed in a paragraph and conclude with sentences like, "Because the idea of fooling around with genes makes a lot of people nervous, developments in this area will probably be gradual." Copious bibliographic notes accompany each chapter.—Joanne K. Cecere, Monroe-Woodbury High School, Central Valley, NY

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