Review: Extreme Weight Loss

Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich. Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery. New York University Press. … More

Review: Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety

Drew Ramsey. Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks. Harper Wave/Harper … More

Review: Anti-Diet

Christy Harrison Anti-Diet: Reclaim your Time, Money, Well-Being and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating. Little, Brown Spark. 2019. Pp. 326. ISBN: … More

Review: Food Justice and Narrative Ethics

Food Justice and Narrative Ethics: Reading Stories for Ethical Awareness and Activism. Beth A. Dixon. Bloomsbury Academic. 2018 ISBN #9781350054561. … More

Review: Reconstructing Obesity

Megan B. McCullough and Jessica A. Hardin, eds. Reconstructing obesity: the meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings. Berghahn. … More

Thesis Review and Interview: Deorukhe Women’s Agency in the Making of Bodies, Cuisine, and Culture in Maharashtra, India

Photograph: Gauri A. Pitale – Waterlogged rice fields of rural Konkan, Maharashtra Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews … More

Good Foods and Foods Good for Health: Hunger and Obesity in Samoa

Jessica Hardin Brandeis University After a cup of sugary tea, John, a Samoan physician, explained to me that the major … More

Zucchini as a Gateway Drug: Cultivating food security in Iowa through gardening

Elizabeth Danforth Richey, PhD, MPH and Angie Tagtow MS, LD, RD Iowa Food Systems Council, info@cultivateiowa.org Do more with less. … More

Solving the World Food Crisis

SCIENTIFIC, SPIRITUAL, AND MORAL CHALLENGES IN SOLVING THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE Fifty-ninth Annual Summer Conference Silver Bay, New York July 27 to … More

Some Food Issues for Some Developmentally Disabled People

I am both an anthropologist and a clinical psychologist. In my latter role, I have treated people from many different … More