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Item Air-quality related health impacts of food in the United States(2021-05) Domingo, Nina GabrielleThe challenge of feeding a growing and increasingly affluent population has spurred interest in identifying diets and food production practices that improve human health and protect the environment. The environmental impacts of our food system on climate change, on land, energy, and water use, and on water quality are well established. Less is known about the role of food in influencing human health via reduced air quality. This is despite the food sector being a major contributor to air pollution and reduced air quality being the largest environmental risk to premature mortality. This dissertation addresses that gap by advancing understanding of the air-quality related health impacts of US food in three ways: (i) by examining air-quality related health impacts of individual foods and diets, I find that 80% of the 15,900 annual death from food-related fine particulate matter is attributable to animal source foods; (ii) by estimating the air-quality related health impacts of pork and chicken along 79 company-specific supply chains, I find that the associated air-quality related health damages are concentrated in a small fraction of the total companies and the slaughter facilities they operate; and (iii) by calculating the external costs linked to the air-quality related health impacts and climate impacts of individual foods, I find that total external costs of food production are comparable to the net cash income of the US farm sector. These findings can inform decisions of food producers, processors and distributors, policymakers, and the broader public interested in improving the health and environmental outcomes linked to the food we eat. Future work should explore the air-quality related health impacts of the food system at a global scale, examine the relationship between food’s air-quality related health impacts and other environmental impacts, and evaluate solutions with respect to broader social and environmental goals.Item Do better-liked foods produce more satiety?(2015-11) Mattes, MitchellFood liking influences hunger and fullness, however, the direction of this influence remains unclear due to the difficulty in capturing the complexity of hunger and fullness feelings and the subjective nature of evaluating food liking. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of food liking (utilizing a bittering agent) on feelings of hunger and fullness utilizing the Five-Factor Hunger and Fullness Questionnaire [(1) mental hunger, (2) physical hunger, (3) mental fullness, (4) physical fullness and (5) food liking]. Thirty participants attended two breakfast sessions one week apart in which they evaluated hunger and fullness feelings produced by two equal-caloric smoothies that differed only in that one contained a bittering agent to lower liking. Levels of the bittering agent were determined from a screening procedure and were panellist specific, targeting a 20% drop in liking. Evaluations were made at 0 minutes, 60 minutes, 120 minutes, and 180 minutes after consumption. Food intake from an ad libitum snack offered three hours after breakfast was covertly recorded. The more palatable control smoothie provided significantly greater mental fullness factor sensations over the three-hour testing period than the bitter smoothie. Physical fullness factor ratings were initially higher for the bitter smoothie than the control smoothie, but dropped to a nearly equal level two hours after consumption. Mental and physical hunger factor sensations were nearly equal between the two smoothies over the three hour testing period. Subjects consumed on average 77 more calories from the ad libitum snack following the bitter smoothie in comparison to the control (p-value < 0.05). These findings suggest that food liking and mental fullness are critically important to understanding satiety and future calorie consumption.Item Expanding the Demand for Farm Food Products in the United States: Part I. History and Potentials(Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1959-04) Wetmore, John M.; Abel, Martin E.; Learn, Elmer W.; Cochrane, Willard W.Item Food Quality and Availability: Diversity in a Tribal Food System(University of Minnesota Extension, 2012-10) Newman, Dawn; Wilsey, David; Beaulieu, SusanDiversity relates to the audiences reached through Extension outreach and teaching, but also applies to program approach and focus. Our work with the Fond du Lac Band addresses the critical issue of food quality and availability through an inclusive understanding of a tribal food system and an approach that features numerous and different strategies. The Ojibwe term “gitigaan” translates as garden but encompasses both food procurement and production, through gathering and cultivation. The Thirteen Moons program focuses on seasonal natural resource activities such as maple sugaring, wild edible greens and fruits, wild rice, hunting, and trapping. The Ojibwe Garden program centers upon a working demonstration garden that features Ojibwe cultivars and production systems, as well as contemporary food crops. In 2011, these programs came together to support the first Tribal Master Gardener cohort. This cohort links to a third food production effort, a youth garden developed under the 4-H Tribal Youth Mentoring program. The term diversity captures much of the collective strength of these interrelated efforts: a partnership with an underserved community, a multifaceted understanding of food systems that goes beyond conventional crops, and a diverse set of approaches that targets different knowledge systems, generations, cultural practices, and skills. The importance of such an approach is underscored by the erratic and sometimes catastrophic weather events of the current year – including an early winter to spring transition, flooding, and drought – and, in particular, the negative impacts of these events on various food sources.Item Minutes: Senate Committee on Finance and Planning: September 4, 2007(University of Minnesota, 2007-09-04) University of Minnesota: Senate Committee on Finance and PlanningItem A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Children's Food Consumption Behavior(Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1970-01) Lund, Lois A.; Burk, Marguerite C.Item Policies for Expanding the Demand for Farm Food Products in the United States(Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, 1961-04) Abel, Martin E.; Cochrane, Willard W.Item RSDP The Student Foodie newsletter - Fall 2015(Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships, 2015) Lanthier, KarenItem RSDP The Student Foodie newsletter - Spring 2015(Regional Sustainable Development Partnerships, 2015) Schwenn, RonnieItem U.S. farmers' preferences for agricultural and food policy in the 1990s(North Central Public Policy education committee. North Central regional Policy Research Project, 1989-11) Guither, Harold D; Jones, Bob F; Martin, Marshall A; Spitze, Robert G.F.