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Summary: In the modern United States, capitalism is the predominant cultural value that structures the food system. The current American relationship to food is strained, at best, as two-thirds of Americans experience overweight and obesity and are at risk for a number of serious health complications. An understanding of the historic and political-economic aspects of the American food system is necessary to address the effects of our modern food habits on our ideas of our selves. This thesis analyzes the types of foods Americans eat, why they make the food choices that they do, how they feel about their eating habits and their habits' effects on their bodies, and how this all relates to our sense of identity as Americans., by Marlena Kay Dates., Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009., Includes bibliography., Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

The research is designed to provide cost-based mathematical optimization techniques which can be used to allocate repair times and failure rates at the component level for various system configurations. Techniques were developed which can be applied to series systems, series arrangements of one or more units made up of identical components in active parallel, and systems composed of a group of series components connected serially with one or more parallel units of identical components. The results of the research are a set of computer programs which can be used to perform the allocations at the component level of the system. The optimality of these allocations is based upon the use of Lagrange multipliers under an availability constraint which is imposed on the system. (Author)

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In the modern United States, capitalism is the predominant cultural value that structures the food system. The current American relationship to food is strained, at best, as two-thirds of Americans experience overweight and obesity and are at risk for a number of serious health complications. An understanding of the historic and political-economic aspects of the American food system is necessary to address the effects of our modern food habits on our ideas of our selves. This thesis analyzes the types of foods Americans eat, why they make the food choices that they do, how they feel about their eating habits and their habits' effects on their bodies, and how this all relates to our sense of identity as Americans., by Marlena Kay Dates., Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009., Includes bibliography., Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

In the modern United States, capitalism is the predominant cultural value that structures the food system. The current American relationship to food is strained, at best, as two-thirds of Americans experience overweight and obesity and are at risk for a number of serious health complications. An understanding of the historic and political-economic aspects of the American food system is necessary to address the effects of our modern food habits on our ideas of our selves. This thesis analyzes the types of foods Americans eat, why they make the food choices that they do, how they feel about their eating habits and their habits' effects on their bodies, and how this all relates to our sense of identity as Americans., by Marlena Kay Dates., Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009., Includes bibliography., Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.