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Title: Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Condition: New
Subtitle: Eating with the World in Mind
ISBN-10: 0295744960
EAN: 9780295744964
ISBN: 9780295744964
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 03/01/2020
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 340g
Author: Nico Slate
Contributor: Padma Kaimal (Series edited by), Anand A. Yang (Series edited by), K. Sivaramakrishnan (Series edited by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Book Series: Global South Asia
Topic: Personal Development, Medicine
Description:

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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