Western medicine often neglects just how much our diets shape our overall health, but California just approved funding for a program that lowers medical expenses for patients with chronic diseases by providing them with medically tailored meals. In this model, the control still remains in the hands of the physician instead of relying on patients to feed themselves well.
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Interested in learning about the connections between processed foods and political, social, economic and environmental systems? This research project (in link below) focuses on changing diets, changing environments and the roles of processed foods in India.
In March, SOAS Food Studies Centre and Gastronomica cohosted Professor Amita Baviskar (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi) as a Distinguished Lecturer in London.
Here is a video of her speech, "Consumer Citizenship: The ...Social Life of Industrial Foods in India". The text will also be published in our next issue!
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It is important to think about how food of all kinds is made possible by both nature and many individual's hard work. In this piece, NY Times and Kabir Ahmed help readers to understand some of the daily struggles of food vendors across the US, by sharing pieces of Ahmed's experience in New York.
