Course: SAT 230 Managing Food Production Systems in the Urban Landscape

Reading and Multimedia Assignments

Multimedia Assignment 3
Multimedia Assignment 3

This last video is “Healing Through Diet," by Dean Ornish, Clinical Professor at UCSF and highlights his work on what makes us healthy and how diet can help.

He makes the case, backed up with clinical data, that what we eat has profound effects on virtually every part of our lives from our physical health to our psychological health.  He briefly outlines the diet he says can help make major changes.

When watching the video also notice the other things that help make us feel better and contribute to our health; things like belonging, friendship, exercise, feelings of contribution and companionship.  Now think about how those same things, including a better diet can be provided by urban agriculture.

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