Fast Food Oppression Through Poor Nutrition Literature Review
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Freeman, Andrea. “Fast Food: Oppression Through Poor Nutrition.” California Law Review, vol. 95, no. 6, Dec. 2007, pp. 2221–2259. EBSCOhost, http://indianapolis.libproxy.ivytech.edu.allstate .libproxy.ivytech.edu/login?url=http://search.ebsc ohost.com.indianapolis.libproxy.ivytech.edu.allstate.libproxy.ivytech.edu/login.aspx? direct=true&db=bth&AN=31317284&site=ehost-live Andrea Freeman is an assistant professor of law at the University of Hawai’i William S. Richardson School of Law. She graduated from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law. The California Law Review is a journal published by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. This article claims that the fast food industry is at fault for poor nutrition especially in colored communities. It focuses around the idea of “food oppression” and insists that it is society and the food industry that hurt people not the choices individuals make about their food. It also talks about the “food justice movement” which seeks to raise awareness…show more content… “The Need for Better Obesity Education- In Medical Schools.” Time.com, 15 Oct. 2013. http://indianapolis.libproxy.ivytech.edu.allstate.libproxy.ivytech.edu/login? url=http://search.ebscohost.com.indianapolis.libproxy.ivytech.edu.allstate.libproxy.ivytech. edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=91264745&site=ehost-live Alice Park has been writing at Time since 1993. Time is a weekly news magazine published by New York City This article shows that it isn’t just patients that need to be educated in healthy eating and nutrition. Doctors aren’t getting the education they need in order to teach their patients. Not only do most people lack education, it goes back to doctors needing education. “Weight is traditional not a subject covered extensively in medical school” and “Current medical education programs aren’t designed to tackle complex and multidisciplinary conditions like obesity...” which is caused by a variety of