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When institutional food doesn't meet your cultural needs

My college dining hall has no foods from my culture and I'm losing weight because nothing feels nourishing to me but asking for accommodation feels like making a big deal out of nothing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The assumption that food is merely fuel ignores how cultural nourishment is essential for psychological and physical wellbeing.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Dietary traditions across cultures?”

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