April 2018

INHABIT (documentary - Uplift.tv)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 4/21/187:02 PM

What if we could meet human needs while increasing the health and wellbeing of our planet? This award-winning film explores the many environmental issues facing us today and how permaculture provides solutions that could change everything. To view the film by Costa Boutsikaris , please click here. (from Dana: As a midwest farm girl, Permaculture is profoundly hopeful, uplifting, and honoring our Mother Earth. From suburban backyards to urban rooftops, the banks of rivers and in forests, on...

Brain Science and Mental Health

Eating Kale May Help Older Adults Slow The Decline In Cognitive Skills (scienceblog.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 4/20/189:02 AM

A recent study found that consumption of green leafy vegetables may help slow the decline in cognitive abilities—or brain function—in older adults. The study by researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts found that those who ate about one-and-a-half servings of green leafy vegetables per day had the cognitive functioning of people roughly eleven years younger than those who ate little or no leafy greens. The finding is striking given that...

Hunger/Food Security through a Trauma-Informed Lens

Food Insecurity may be Keeping College Students from Graduating

Monica Bhagwan · 4/11/183:23 PM

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/04/03/599198739/food-housing-insecurity-may-be-keeping-college-students-from-graduating

Hunger/Food Security through a Trauma-Informed Lens

What Children understand about Food Insecurity

Monica Bhagwan · 4/11/183:21 PM

https://civileats.com/2018/03/26/what-children-understand-about-food-insecurity/

Trauma and Health Outcomes

Food insecurity can lead to family violence, new UTSA study says

Jacqueline Chang · 4/9/187:09 PM

https://www.ksat.com/education/new-utsa-study-links-food-insecurity-to-family-violence?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar link to the journal article mentioned in above article: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1090198118760683?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed&

Healing Trauma

Culinary Medicine: How Therapists are Using the Rituals of Eating to Heal Trauma

Monica Bhagwan · 4/6/1810:40 AM

https://newfoodeconomy.org/culinary-meal-as-medicine-mindful-eating-trauma-anxiety-disorder/

Hunger/Food Security through a Trauma-Informed Lens

Bringing meals to people with food insecurity may deliver savings to the healthcare system [latimes.com]

Alicia Doktor · 4/4/184:32 PM

Imagine you are the tightfisted potentate of a small republic, plotting the least expensive way to care for subjects in fragile health who depend on your beneficence. You could watch while your subjects who are elderly or disabled (or both) scramble to find and pay for healthy meals. And you could open your checkbook each time one of these subjects lapses into a health crisis that calls for a trip to a hospital's emergency department in an ambulance. But you might just try feeding these...

The Government Knows A Plant-Based Diet Is Best–It Should Make It Official (fastcompany.com)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 4/2/1810:32 AM

The latest developments in the food industry show how fast the world is moving forward in countering climate change. Just this week, the global food chain giant McDonald’s announced that it is planning to cut its emissions intensity by 31% , across its supply chain, by 2030. That’s a big deal. It’s the first global restaurant company in the world to set a science-based target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If McDonald’s can lead on this, so should the United States. If the U.S. wants to...

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