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Sep 4, 2024 | arts and humanities

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Darwin identified fire and language as the key elements of human progress. Professor Elliot Berry, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, argues that nutrition and food security are equally vital for cultural evolution. He is a Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Nutrition – Nutrition and Sustainable Diets, and an Editor of the three volume Encyclopaedia of Food Security and Sustainability. Berry explains that food security supports the development of sociotypes, which describe how individuals interact within society, and emphasizes their importance, especially amid global crises, for sustainable development and public health. He advocates that we recognize food security as a fundamental human right and incorporate sociotype concepts in medicine and public health. More

Original Article Reference

This SciPod is a summary of ‘Food Security and Nutrition as the Neglected Missing Links in Cultural Evolution: The Role of the Sociotype’ in Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10477

Supplementary information was taken from ‘The role of the sociotype in managing chronic disease: Integrating bio-psycho-sociology with systems biology’ in Medical Hypotheses, ‘Coping With Food Insecurity Using the Sociotype Ecological Framework’ and ‘The Obesity Pandemic—Whose Responsibility? No Blame, No Shame, Not More of the Same’ in Frontiers in Nutrition, and ‘Coping with the Challenges of COVID-19 Using the Sociotype Framework: A Rehearsal for the Next Pandemic’ in Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal.

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For further information, you can connect with Professor Elliot Berry at elliotb@ekmd.huji.ac.il

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