What is the Luke's Local Commons?
At Luke’s Local, we’re committed to building a strong food community that lives and breathes environmentally sound, humane, economically viable, and socially just practices every day. The farmers and producers we support do just that, and we’re proud to work with such an incredible network of food makers in the Bay Area.
Also in Luke's Local Blog
Guest Blog: Shanti Pappas of Happy Belly Health - Too Busy To Eat Well?
Guest Blog: Registered Dietician Samantha Finkelstein - 5 Reasons To Ditch The Diet Mentality (And What That Actually Means)
“I’m so bad for eating this”. “I’m not keeping this food in the house anymore — otherwise I’ll eat the whole box”. Comments like these have become so common place that it may be hard to believe they are problematic. But it turns out that this mindset around our eating may be leaving us in worse shape than we thought. Diet culture, defined as “a system that values weight, shape, and size over health and well-being”, tells us that if our eating and our bodies don’t look a certain way, we are unworthy and unhealthy.
