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Fast Food for Thought 2024

April 16th, 2024 10th annual Fast Food for Thought. Speakers include: Speaker Affiliation Talk Title Resources Benjamin Goldstein SEAS, Sustainable Urban-Rural Futures (SURF) lab “Comparing thecarbon footprints ofurban andconventionalagriculture” Comparing the carbon footprints of urban and conventional agriculture Keith Soster Maize & Blue Cupboard; Michigan Dining “Michigan Dining and Sustainable Food Systems” Alyssa Paredes […]

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Kendrin Sonneville at Fast Food for Thought | “The Overlooked Industry: How the Food Industry Contributes to Eating Disorders”

Kendrin Sonneville (Michigan Ross) gives a tiny talk titled “The Overlooked Industry: How the Food Industry Contributes to Eating Disorders” at Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on April 12th, 2022. Introduction by Lilly Fink Shapiro, Sustainable Food Systems. Learn more about Food Literacy For All sessions here.

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Bilal Butt at Fast Food for Thought | “Drought, Famine and Hunger in Drylands”

Bilal Butt (School for Environment and Sustainability) gives a tiny talk titled “Drought, Famine and Hunger in Drylands” at Fast Food for Thought at the University of Michigan on April 12th, 2022. Introduction by Lilly Fink Shapiro, Sustainable Food Systems. Learn more about Food Literacy For All sessions here.

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Deanna Belleny Lewis | “Cultivating a Food System Grounded in Equity: The Role of Healthcare and Healthcare Providers”

March 8th, 2022 In this Food Literacy for All session, Deanna Belleny Lewis discussed “Cultivating a Food System Grounded in Equity: The Role of Healthcare and Healthcare Providers”. This session explores the intersections of public health nutrition, health equity, and weight stigma. Deanna defines and discusses the importance of cultural humility and developing identity awareness

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Dr. Fatima Stanford | “The Role of Weight Bias on Health Outcomes”

February 1st, 2022 In this Food Literacy for All session, Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford explores the deleterious impact of weight bias on the impact on the health outcomes of the population. She ascertains how health professionals harbor implicit and explicit bias and evaluates strategies that medical organizations have taken to fight weight bias. Register to

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Robert Lustig | “Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 4, 2020 Mountain Dew Mouth has been the scourge of dentists for decades. But there’s a new disease which affects even more people: Mountain Dew Liver. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) wasn’t even discovered until 1980; and now up to 40% of Americans suffer from it, and it is now the leading cause

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Course Intro | “Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 14, 2020 Food Literacy for All 2020 was kicked off by the course leadership team: Jerry Ann Hebron, Cindy Leung, Devita Davison, Lilly Fink Shapiro, and Winona Bynum. In this session, speakers discussed what it means to “Set the Table for Health Equity” and gave a preview of the range of topics and guest

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