Food and Health Reporting

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Focus on nutrition and diet, and reporting on the impact of food on physical and mental health.

Nutrition: Understanding the basics of nutrition, including macro and micronutrients, dietary guidelines, and food labeling.
Food safety: Understanding the importance of food safety, including proper handling, storage, and preparation of food.
Food systems: Understanding the various components of the food system, including agriculture, production, distribution, and consumption.
Food policy: Understanding the role of government policies in food production and consumption, including food labeling, food assistance programs, and regulations on advertising and marketing.
Food ethics: Understanding the ethical issues surrounding food production and consumption, including animal welfare, environmental sustainability, and social justice issues.
Food culture: Understanding the role of food in different cultures, including cultural traditions, food rituals, and food as an expression of identity.
Food history: Understanding the historical context of food and how it has evolved over time, including the influence of historical events, migration, and global trade on food.
Food industry: Understanding the various sectors of the food industry, including farming, processing, marketing, and distribution.
Food journalism: Understanding the basic principles of journalism, including fact-checking, sourcing, and ethical reporting practices.
Food trends: Understanding current food trends and fads, including plant-based eating, gluten-free diets, and other dietary trends.
Food marketing: Understanding the techniques used in food marketing, including advertising and product placement.
Food writing: Understanding the basic principles of food writing, including how to write engaging and informative food-related articles and reviews.
Food photography: Understanding the basics of food photography, including lighting, composition, and styling.
Food blogging: Understanding how to create and maintain a successful food blog, including content creation, social media strategy, and search engine optimization.
Culinary arts: Understanding basic culinary techniques, including cooking methods, flavor profiles, and food presentation.
Culinary Journalism: Journalists reporting on the culinary industry or the stories behind particular dishes or cooking techniques.
Ethical Food Writing: Writing about the ethics behind the food we eat, including animal welfare, environmental issues and fair labor practices.
Nutrition Reporting: Reporting on the scientific research and discoveries related to nutrition and health, including the effects of specific foods on the body.
Restaurant Criticism: Writing reviews of restaurants, bars, cafes, bakeries and other food establishments, assessing the quality of the food, service and overall dining experience.
Food Policy Journalism: Journalism focused on investigating, analyzing and reporting on food policies, including government regulations and laws affecting the food industry.
Investigative Journalism: In-depth analysis of issues in the food industry including food system sustainability, food security, agricultural practices and food fraud.
Specialty Food Writing: Writing that focuses on particular topics within the field of food and health journalism, such as gluten-free diets, vegetarian or vegan diets or diabetes management.
Recipe Development and Writing: Developing and writing recipes, including narratives behind food ingredients, presentations and flavor pairings.
Cookbook Writing: Writing and publishing cookbooks that encompass the taste, nutrition and history behind specific types of foods and cooking techniques.
Travel Food Writing: Reporting about regional, national or international cuisine, including the culture and context from which these foods originated.
"Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life."
"It provides organisms with nutrients, which can be metabolized to create energy and chemical structures."
"Failure to obtain sufficient nutrients causes malnutrition."
"Nutritional science is the study of nutrition, though it typically emphasizes human nutrition."
"Organisms obtain nutrients by consuming organic matter, consuming inorganic matter, absorbing light, or some combination of these."
"Some can produce nutrients internally by consuming basic elements."
"Some must consume other organisms to obtain pre-existing nutrients."
"All forms of life require carbon, energy, and water as well as various other molecules."
"Animals require complex nutrients such as carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins."
"Humans obtain complex nutrients by consuming other organisms."
"Humans have developed agriculture and cooking to replace foraging and advance human nutrition."
"Plants acquire nutrients through the soil and the atmosphere."
"Fungi absorb nutrients around them by breaking them down and absorbing them through the mycelium."
"The type of organism determines what nutrients it needs."
"Organisms obtain nutrients by consuming organic matter, consuming inorganic matter, absorbing light, or some combination of these."
"Animals require complex nutrients such as carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins, obtaining them by consuming other organisms."
"All forms of life require carbon, energy, and water as well as various other molecules."
"Humans have developed agriculture and cooking to replace foraging and advance human nutrition."
"Plants acquire nutrients through the soil and the atmosphere."
"Fungi absorb nutrients around them by breaking them down and absorbing them through the mycelium."