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Forkways #7: Nutritional Influences of Indviduals, Communities, and Schools

Individual, Community, and School Influences on Childhood Nutrition in Iron County, Utah. The world is evolving. Through the globalization of society combined with broader access to information, people encounter difficulty with data overload . Certain cooking practices, health techniques, and ideas about nature and agriculture are being overlooked, lost, or outright forgotten. As our access to information increases, our desire to maintain knowledge decreases. Skills are rarely mastered and often left to a Google search on demand. The availability of technology is inspiring for some, a hurdle for others. One of the greatest casualties of the technological age is the decentralization of local communities. Technology provides humans with so much, as individuals find more connections online than they do in real life; where people stare at their phones and look for their next pleasure fix, it still can’t solve many of the world’s problems. In some cases it is making them worse. Hung