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
