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    Nutrition appears as one of those elements of human actions and thoughts through which human beings express ways and forms of collective existence. What we commonly refer to as the economic, political and symbolic spheres converge in nutrition, so much so that eating as a practice is a sort of “total social fact” or, in other words, a form of cultural expression tracing back to the very ... Read more

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