Food For Thought Analysis

Food for Thought: Diet, Nutrition, and Policy

There are many ways to initiate food policy changes and it all depends on a number of stratetgic ways. All types of individuals need some sort of motivation to make changes in their life. Factors such as knowledge, motivation, education, and imploring can be seen as ways that can help an individual change. Those factors though might not be enough. It would best to redesign the conceptual model and use the factors of economic, legislation, regulation, and enviornment as opitmal defaults to help change the individual. There are many negative defaults within diet and nutrition which include portion sizes, economics of food, too much access, too little access, and food marketing (Brownell, 2013). One way that could help …show more content…
This could lead to policy and social change. According to the video, there are four strategic science examples that are used to help bring forth policy change. Researchers look into cereal and child marketing, food and addiction, soda taxes, and smart choices (Brownell, 2013). In regards to cereal and child marketing, researchers noted that while breakfast is a necessity for children, much of these cereal brands contain too much sugar. When the industry caught wind of their research, it led to them reducing the sugar within the cereal. It was through the press, public opinion, and industry it created both policy and social changes. Researchers have also noted that there is such a thing as food addiction. Sugar is considered to be highly addictive and could possible mess with the brain. Even processed food can have that ability. In order to help prevent and bring on a policy change, researchers suggested a sugar beverage tax. This could bring in great revenue for each state which will make politicians take notice. Also, the smart choice program also lead to great changes. It brought on investigations to make sure that foods are not being sold under false labels