The Real Cost of Cheap food

What is the real cost of cheap food? Recorded at a live public event hosted at Frome Medical Practice, this episode brings together a GP, a dietitian, a food journalist, a farmer and producer, and a community food activist to explore the links between what we eat, our health and the health of the planet. Includes audience questions.

Guests

Tasha – Founder, Land Food and Medicine at 42 Acres. Tasha grows and produces medicinal and native wild foods and runs a free nature and food programme for people with mental health challenges and women seeking asylum. She draws on her Nicaraguan heritage and experience of food poverty to make the case for food culture, community, and nutrient-dense food over quantity. https://www.landfoodmedicine.com/

Leslie Harper – Registered Dietitian, Somerset Integrated Care Board. Leslie leads a programme educating NHS staff across Somerset on gut health and the importance of fibre, pulses, and less processed foods. She makes the case for focusing on what we are no longer eating rather than demonising specific foods.

Dr Helen Kingston – GP, Frome Medical Practice. Helen connects the dots between poor diet, over-medication, and a healthcare system that too often creates problems rather than preventing them, and champions food as a universal health message with no stigma attached.

Hugh Thomas – Food journalist, The Warfish Journal; coordinator, Frome Food Network; co-manager, Canteen (pay-as-you-can pop-up restaurant). Hugh covers food and farming in Somerset and makes the economic case for local, seasonal, and minimally processed food. https://www.thewfj.co.uk/