May 5, 2009, the Berkley Public Library

During this talk, I briefly recapped the basic nutrition concepts we covered in the first session and expanded them to cover more aspects of what it means to be a qualitarian:  where food products come from, how they’re processed, and how they affect our personal health and the health of our economy.  We explored the connections between the food we eat and the chronic diseases that have become so prevalent in our society (i.e., diabetes, heart disease, autism, arthritis).

Time ran out before we could get into the art of reading food labels, but stay tuned–I’ll be back for another session in fall!  Tentative title:  “Modern-Day Hunting & Gathering,”  wherein we’ll focus on ferreting out information from labels and packaging to make sure that we’re eating what we hope we’re eating.  We’ll also talk about easy ways to improve the quality of your in-home cooking.

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Thank you to all who attended!