Research help - How we eat now compared to the past

ajsquale
ajsquale Posts: 38 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I'm trying to do a little research for a school project on how American's eating habits have changed over the years, but I'm having a hard time finding reliable resources that offer good information on this topic. I watched the documentary Hungry For Change and thought that was a great start, but I was just wondering if any of you fellow MFPs know of some internet, documentary, or book resources that would help me out! Thanks much!

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  • kristen6022
    kristen6022 Posts: 1,923 Member
    How far back are you wanting to go? Would you be able to interview people as reliable sources? Like someone in their 80's someone in their 40's and someone in their early 20's and compare and contrast?
  • Greenrun99
    Greenrun99 Posts: 2,065 Member
    Take away fast food and half of the freezer sections in grocery stores..
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    I'm trying to do a little research for a school project on how American's eating habits have changed over the years, but I'm having a hard time finding reliable resources that offer good information on this topic. I watched the documentary Hungry For Change and thought that was a great start, but I was just wondering if any of you fellow MFPs know of some internet, documentary, or book resources that would help me out! Thanks much!

    http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products.aspx#.UVMVlkprRn4
  • ajsquale
    ajsquale Posts: 38 Member
    Kristen, I could interview people, but I'm mainly just looking for resources online.

    Thanks acg67, I'll look into that link.
  • savithny
    savithny Posts: 1,200 Member
    Old home economics books, especially cookbooks, are a fascinating way to get a look at how our eating habits have changed. They reflect what experts thought were "best practices" for feeding a family and budgeting for food. The earlier ones were often just written by women who were considered very good cooks or homemakers, and reflect what people thought of as "doing it right."

    I love this archive of old home ec texts:
    http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/

    Food specific ones are here:
    http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/food.html

    For a bibliography on "instituional Nutrition:"
    http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/inst_mgt.html

    You can just browse using this link:
    http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/browse.html

    Or you can use the "search" on the left to find specific titles from the topic bibliographies.

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