#HRH-FoodisaDrug

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"Recovery often involves an entire re-learning of how to approach eating"

Q: When this is the case, how do you reduce harm?

Q: How does this idea of recovery inform other behaviors and substance use?

"As an eating disorder and trauma therapist, Ashley McHan sees patients with an array of issues with food. VICE speaks to her about our unhealthy relationship to food, how it contributes to disordered eating and the underlying causes, similarities and differences of various eating disorders."

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"Food for thought: How your belly controls your brain"

Ruairi Robertson

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"As a nutritionist, microbiologist and neuroscientist, Ruairi Robertson is passionate about the link between our bellies and brains. His research is examining how our intestines and the microbes within them can influence both physical and mental health, and most importantly how our diets influence this relationship. Ruairi has travelled the world researching food, and believes it is the key to global public health. Ruairi is a PhD student in University College Cork in Ireland and current Fulbright Scholar"

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The link above will lead you to a 2022 Healthcare and CSA Community of Practice Report from Vermont.

Doctors are writing scripts for food shares.

"This "Prescription CSA" or "Food is Medicine" program addresses three major needs in Addison County: diet-related illness, food insecurity and local farm viability. These produce prescriptions are written by health care providers and provide free CSA shares supplied by three local farmers (10-12 pounds per week). See page 7 for more information."

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Food as Medicine

The videos above are accounts of Black and Brown folx using food and herbs to keep themselves healthy and restore their bodies to homeostasis.