Health and Food
BOOKS
Memoirs/History/Biography
The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life by Angelo M. Pellegrini
In Bibi's Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean, A Cookbook by Hawa Hassan and Julie Turshen
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Micheal W. Twitty
Non-Fiction/Essays
This Is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensible Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More by Uma Naidoo
We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto by Alice Water, Bob Carrau, Cristina Mueller
How To Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good For You, Others, and the Planet by Sophie Egan
Cool Beans: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking with the World's Most Versatile Plant-Based Protein, with 125 Recipes by Joe Yonan and Photography by Aubrie Pick
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
VIDEOS, MOVIES & TV SERIES
Links to full-length film/video when possible. Trailers otherwise. Streaming options noted.
Videos
What Causes Migraines? TedEd video by Marianne Schwarz
Making the Business Case for Prevention: Healthy Corner Stores - Healthy eating - From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Metabolism & Nutrition, Part 1: Crash Course A&P #36 - A two part series about nutrition
Metabolism & Nutrition, Part 2: Crash Course A&P #37 - A two part series about nutrition
Staying Active is Easy with our Work Out from Home Videos - A workout video series by independenthealth.com
Dramatic Feature Films/Series
Uncorked - Wine industry, expertise, family - Netflix
The Mind Explained - Available with subscription to Netflix
Nadiya Bakes - Nadiya Hussain on cultural and creative baked delicacies - Netflix
Somebody Feed Phil - Food and friends - Available with subscription to Netflix
In the Kitchen with Joana Gaines - Available with subscription to Discovery+
The Final Table - Available with subscription to Netflix
Documentaires
What the Health - A follow up to Conspiracy: The Sustainability Secret - Available with subscription to YouTube, Netflix
The Game Changers - Meat , protein, plant-based food - Available with subscription to Netflix , YouTube
Kiss the Ground - Climate change, eating healthy foods, saving the earth -Available with subscription to Netflix , YouTube
The Truth About Alcohol - Human affects from an age-old relationship - Available with subscription to Netflix, YouTube
In Search of Israeli Cuisine - Follow chef Micheal Solomonov on his search for Israeli Cuisine - Available with subscription to Amazon, YouTube
Fed Up - An investigation into the American Food Industry - Available with subscription to Amazon, YouTube
Vegucated - Being vegan is harder than it looks - Available to watch on YouTube
ARTICLES & NOTABLE COLLECTIONS OF RESOURCES
COVID 19 and its mental health consequences - Article from Journal of Mental Health by Anant Kumar and Rajasekharan Nayar
27 Health and Nutrition Tips That Are Actually Evidence-Based by healthline.com
Three Studies, One Result: Vaccines Point The Way Out of the Pandemic - Article by the New York Times
How to Eat Well in 2021 - Article by Lisa Drayer, CNN
Understanding and Addressing Racial Disparities in Health Care - Article by ncbi.nlm.nih.gov by David R. Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Toni D. Rucker, Ph.D.
Leaders look to address food deserts across Mecklenburg County - wbtv.com
Grocery deserts still exist in Charlotte. Here's what's being done to help fix the problem - Axios Charlotte by Paige Hopkins
Eating heathy in a food desert: Mecklenburg leaders seek new solutions - UNC Charlotte Institute
Food Research & Action Center
Black Women's Maternal Health by nationalpartnership.org
Working Together to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality - Health Equity Features CDC by cdc.gov
America is Failing its Black Mothers: Harvard Public Health Magazine by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks by hopkinsmedicine.org
40 Years of Human Experiments in America: The Tuskegee Study - Office for Science and Society by McGill University
How an Enslaved African Man in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox- History.com
Created by Isis Parker, Mint Museum Intern, Summer 2021
