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Junk "Food" Experience: How it Affected Me in a Short Space of Time

We tend to neglect the value of personal experiences when exploring societal questions. Such subjectivity is often regarded as bias or prejudice. While it is essential to remain objective when providing good quality research, it is also important to remind ourselves that we are humans after all and not robots. French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur reminds us that: ‘Understanding is ( … ) no longer a mode of knowledge but a mode of being which exists through understanding’. That is to say, as individuals, we gain understanding through our own personal experiences.

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Geographies Of Food: How Global Consumer Choices Affect Our Health.

You’re probably asking yourself “what has food geography got to do with nutrition and healthful eating?” Well, rather a lot really! When you scrape the surface and dig deep to unearth the lengths to which corporate food industries go in order to sell their ultra-processed foods just about everywhere in the world. Food Geography is a field of Human Geography. It focuses on patterns of food production and consumption on the local to global scale. It examines the type of foods these multi-nationals provide consumers highlighting that they are devoid of nutrients and are a far cry from the sustainable diets once eaten by our not-so-ancient ancestors.

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