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April 2009, Vol 99, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 615
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.151522

IMAGES OF HEALTH

The Culture of Food

Aleisha Kropf, BA

Aleisha Kropf is the owner and lead designer at Kropf Design in Bloomington, IN. She has worked as the imagist and image editor for the Journal since 2004.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Aleisha Kropf, 1204 S. Washington St., Bloomington, IN 47401(e-mail: slappyalk@gmail.com).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

FOOD PREPARATION AFFECTS the vital aspects of everyday life: health, relationships, the environment, and spirituality. Westernized food preparation—characterized by processed food, fast food, and solitary eating—is detrimental to public health and well-being. To reform health, a return to traditional cultures that focus on the ritual of food and the engaged process of creating meals together may provide a missing link in modern societies between food and health.


Figure 1
Soho Homeschool. Jessica Accardi breast-feeds her youngest son Augustus while the other children, aged 4, 7, 10, and 12, have freshly made pasta for lunch. All children helped prepare the lunch from cooking . . . [Full Text]






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