Stories
- Podcast
Farmland
Fruit and vegetables link our hungry bodies to the world of plants. Yet many of us have little understanding of the farming industry and the impact that bringing crops to our plates has on the planet.
- Article
Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
- Article
We need less ‘sickle cell warriors’ and more allies
Rejecting the epithet “warrior”, Cheryl Telfer describes the pervasive effect sickle cell disease has on her life, and calls for more people to donate blood to help sicklers.
- Article
Six personal health zines that might change your life
Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
A simple reducing diet : meat, fish & eggs.
Date: [between 1970 and 1979]- Books
"But I don't eat that much" : a diet specialist answers his patient's questions on once-and-for-all reducing / by Morton B. Glenn.
Glenn, Morton B.Date: 1974- Books
Get your fats right : the guide to reducing fat in your diet / by Jane Thomas.
Thomas, Jane.Date: [1992?]- Books
Diet and health : implications for reducing chronic disease risk / Committee on Diet and Health, Food and Nutrition Board, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Diet and Health.Date: 1989- Books
Lose weight the healthy way : bran-slim diet plan / Thomson Medical Company Ltd.
Thomson Medical Company.Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]