Possible topic
Nutrition, obesity, and diabetes, e.g. how are high obesity and diabetes rates among Latinos explained?
Recommended Sources
Que Vivan los Tamales! : food and the making of Mexican identity by Call Number: Main Library Stacks 394.1 P637qISBN: 082631872XPublication Date: 1998-01-01Chapters include: People of corn : Native American cuisine -- Conquests of wheat: culinary encounters in the colonial period -- Many chefs in the national kitchen: the nineteenth century -- Tortilla discourse : nutrition and nation building -- Replacing the Aztec blender : the modernization of popular cuisine -- Apostles of the enchilada : postrevolutionary nationalism -- Recipes for patria : national cuisines in global perspective.
Obesity and Poverty: a new public health challenge by Call Number: Main Library Closed Stacks - Request Online 616.39 O12ISBN: 9275115761Publication Date: 2000-03-01This publication is an examination of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Latin America and Caribbean countries that looks at the medium and long-term harmful consequences of these conditions and explores their implications for planning public health interventions.
- Rodriguez-Gomez, Guadalupe, "The Debate Over Food Sovereignty in Mexico"Conference paper, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, September 14-15, 2013
Other Library Sources
Suggested keywords for NUSearch and/or advanced searches in journal databases (HAPI - limit search to English sources, JSTOR, Embase, or others):
| obesity | latinos | public health |
|---|---|---|
| nutrition | hispanics | policy |
| diet | latin americans | interventions |
| health behavior | mexicans | food environments |
| health choices | puerto ricans | news media |
To find sources on policy interventions, use these keywords in NU Search with the keyword, "interventions."
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There are many relevant entries on obesity, nutrition, and health that could you lead you to other sources in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Latin American History.