Current Issues: Junk Food

Are schools responsible for fostering exercise and nutrition? Can planting school gardens change kids' eating habits? Does the government regulation of school lunches go too far? How does the quality of a child's diet affect their brain and body? This important edition tackles the following questions in this comprehensive book, presenting readers with a diverse set of perspectives on the issue of junk food in schools.

Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad.