Nutrition in The Global North and Global South
This paper is an exploration of nutrition and a globalized society. I wrote it as a final paper for a class called Nutrition and Anthropology.
The prompt was: What are the key challenges to good nutrition for all humans in contemporary times? What approaches would be most successful in addressing these challenges? and Discuss how your perspective on nutrition has changed over the semester and what topic(s) were most of interest to you.
This prompt was quite challenging to address with simple solutions. However, while brainstorming for this paper, I realized that I believe the main challenge to good nutrition is that we live in a globalized society in which unequal power dynamics are the driving forces for nutrition, as well as many other factors within society (healthcare, jobs, resource production and acquisition, culture, etc.). This ties back to an Anthropological/Sociological concept that needs to be considered within my studies, as well as on a larger scale- the idea that through globalization, societies are both repressed and freed in different ways.