Food for Health
Food is one essential element for life, of course. Unfortunately, much of the food from the industrialized food system actually undermines health instead of supporting it. This category identifies articles that focus on health impacts of food and food choices.
Check out these resources:
- ‘You Are What You Eat’: How Industrial Agriculture Is Destroying Human Health, a student research report
- Healthy Food for Healthy Communities
For more information, go to our Food category.
A Day in the Life
by Chrysan Cronin — It’s 6:30 in the morning. I am scrambling an egg white in a non-stick pan from an egg that, one minute earlier, had been nesting in a plastic egg carton, surrounded by 11 other eggs stamped … more
Sustainability & Public Health
Let’s look at sustainability in terms of how our practices affect human health, both immediately and over the long term. Whether we call them health problems or environmental problems, though, the prescription for corrective actions is almost identical. The health lens is … more
Lehigh Valley Student Sustainability Conference
Friday, Nov 13, 2009 Northampton Community College, Southside Bethlehem Campus 511 E Third Street Bethlehem, PA A special conference by and for students in the Lehigh Valley, but open to all. Based on the success of the Spring 2009 LVAIC Sustainability Conference, … more
Social Entrepreneurs
It’s vitally important to realize that while some social ventures can be looked at as a business that happens to have a special type of mission and product or service, others are not market-driven, market-based, or market-financed. In these ventures, traditional business & … more
Lehigh Dining
As part of an Alliance internship, a Lehigh University student completed a report on dining services there. Lehigh Dining, operated by Sodexo, has made many improvements in the area of waste reduction, including phasing out Styrofoam and replacing it with reusable take-out … more
Healthy Food for Healthy Communities
This section contains excerpts from ‘Healthy Food for Healthy Communities’, a report that outlines sustainability and public health implications of the industrial agriculture system and food service operations in institutions such as hospitals, colleges & universities, and schools. The report … more
The Problem with Industrialized Agriculture
According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, industrial agriculture ‘views the farm as a factory with “inputs” (such as pesticides, feed, fertilizer, and fuel) and “outputs” (corn, chickens, and so forth)…’1 Many of the ‘inputs’ used to maximize production are … more
Food That Promotes Health and Wellbeing
To avoid the problems that go with food from the inudstrialized agriculture system, we need to change to food that is grown sustainably.10 Switching to such food reduces the levels of pesticides in humans and prevents some of the negative health … more
Community Education About Healthy Food
The industrialized food system has done an excellent job of marketing food that is nutritionally deficient and actually harms people’s health. To protect the health of staff and of the community as a whole (and in the case of hospitals, … more
Food Service Operations
With institutional service, what is not eaten is an important part of sustainable practices that contribute to public health. Commercial kitchens create a large amount of waste in preparation, leftovers, and food left on plates; this waste pollutes groundwater, generates … more