Fast-Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines And Social Ties (Critical Perspectives On Youth)

The book provides a thorough account of the role that food plays in the lives of today's youth, teasing out the many contradictions of food as a cultural object—fast food portrayed as a necessity for the poor and yet, reviled by upper-middle class parents; fast food restaurants as one of the few spaces that kids can claim and effectively ‘take over’ for several hours each day; food corporations spending millions each year to market their food to kids and to lobby Congress against regulations; schools struggling to deliver healthy food young people will actually eat, and the difficulty of arranging family dinners, which are known to promote family cohesion and stability. -- amazon.com

• | Author: Amy L. Best
• | Publisher: NYU Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 28, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Health & Fitness
• | ISBN-10: 1479802328
• | ISBN-13: 9781479802326