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The godmother of ‘plant-based’ living

"Diet for a Small Planet" promotes a plant-centric approach to eating as being more beneficial for personal and global health.

"Diet for a Small Planet" promotes a plant-centric approach to eating as being more beneficial for personal and global health.

To the Editor: The research cited in this article supports a compelling link between the presence of a warm, available maternal grandmother and positive mother-child outcomes. But women without such mothers can and do become wonderful mothers themselves, despite what is presented as a critical deficit. Over the last 27 years, I’ve interviewed hundreds of women who were children, adolescents and young adults when their own mothers died. These women often feel a lack of confidence as parents, particularly around raising children past the age they were when their mothers died. They may feel an...

Related Dr. Rupa Marya has spent two decades studying how social structures predispose marginalized groups to illness. This year, Marya aims to foster healing in vulnerable communities with a new farm, Ma Da Dil; a new nonprofit, Deep Medicine Circle; and a new book, A women of color-led organization made up of farmers, healers, activists, and artists, Deep Medicine Circle recently launched its Farming Is Medicine program on a 1-acre rooftop farm in Oakland as well as on a 38-acre Indigenous-run farm on the California coast south of San Francisco. The farmers at both locations will take an a...