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Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet - Eating with the World in Mind (Hardcover) Loot Price: R827
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Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet - Eating with the World in Mind (Hardcover): Nico Slate

Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet - Eating with the World in Mind (Hardcover)

Nico Slate; Series edited by Anand A. Yang, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Padma Kaimal

Series: Global South Asia

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Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in tandem with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his active resistance to economies based on slavery, indentured labor, and imperialism. Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi's life as they relate to his developing food ethic: his student years in London, his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930 Salt March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting as a means of self-purification and social protest during India's struggle for independence. What became the pillars of Gandhi's diet-vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding processed food, and fasting-anticipated many twenty-first-century food debates and the need to build healthier and more equitable global food systems.

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Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Global South Asia
Release date: February 2019
First published: 2019
Authors: Nico Slate
Series editors: Anand A. Yang • K. Sivaramakrishnan • Padma Kaimal
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 978-0-295-74495-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Dietetics & nutrition
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
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LSN: 0-295-74495-2
Barcode: 9780295744957

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