In this video Parke Wilde, author of Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction, explores the question “Who should study U.S. Food Policy?”. He introduces the 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans conceptual framework of what influences diet and health; the food marketing chain and groups involved; and relevant areas of the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government, whilst signposting to related chapters in the newly published second edition of the book.

Read our Q&A with Parke and purchase a copy of the book, visit: http://ow.ly/WaHj30iMkMP

You can also visit Parke’s blog: http://ow.ly/whS130iMjV5 which provides a forum for discussion and debate of the issues set out in the book.