Presentation to Lakeside Alumni Luncheon, July 26 2013.

1. 26 July 2013
Travel-Learning, Italy, and Food:A Health
Promotion Perspective
Christopher Fink, PhD - Lakeside, OH
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2. My Background
✤ Exercise Science
✤ Exercise Psychology
✤ Health Behavior &
Health Promotion
✤ Chronic Disease Prevention
(Diet and Physical Activity)
✤ My Challenge
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3. OWU and
Opportunities
✤ Italian Courses
✤ Travel Learning
✤ Fostering interdisciplinarity in
the study of diet, physical
activity, and health
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5. Who /What is Slow Food?
Slow Food works to defend biodiversity in our
food supply, spread taste education, and connect
producers of excellent foods with co-producers
through events and initiatives
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6. ✤ 100,000 + members
✤ 1,000 + chapters
✤ Terra Madre
✤ Salone del Gusto
✤ University of Gastronomic
Sciences
Who /What is
Slow Food?
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7. History
✤ 1986: Arcigola founded in Bra, Italy
✤ 1989: Slow Food Manifesto born
✤ 1996: Ark of Taste is launched, first Salone del Gusto in Turin
✤ 2000: Slow Food USA established
✤ 2004: University of Gastronomic Sciences opens, first Terra Madre is held
✤ 2008: 7th Salone del Gusto is held with 180,000 visitors
✤ 2011: Granai della Memoria project is initiated in an attempt to preserve
traditional knowledge
✤ 2012: Terra Madre & Salone del Gusto held simultaneously with 200,000 +
visitors
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8. Why Slow Food? Why Me?
✤ Contrast to “standard” approach to healthful diet
✤ Importance of purpose,
meaning in health behaviors
✤ Interest in environmental
factors
✤ Social, cultural, physical
✤ Emergence from interest in
Mediterranean dietary and lifestyle patterns
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9. Slow Food &
Health Promotion
✤ Emerging linkage
✤ IUHPE connection
✤ Diet-related chronic disease - solutions?
✤ Elevate importance of food
✤ Co-producer model
✤ Build community around food
Health Promotion
The process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants,
and thereby improve their health - World Health Organization
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10. Travel Learning - 2011 Edition
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11. Travel Learning - 2011 Edition
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12. Torino/Pollenzo - 2011
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13. Torino/Pollenzo 2011 - UNISG
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15. Granai della Memoria Project
✤ Project overview
✤ Emergence, spring 2011
✤ Our implementation
(Fall 2011)
✤ Delaware COA
✤ Slow Food
✤ MG connection
✤ Manuscript
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16. Travel Learning - 2011 Edition
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17. Novellara - 2011
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25. Travel-Learning 2013
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30. Travel Learning 2013 -Torino
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33. Granaries Project - UNISG
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35. 2013Travel Learning - Perugia
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40. Outcomes
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41. Extensions
✤ Food, Culture, and Society
Article
✤ Bite! 2012: Sagan National
Colloquium
✤ Student benefits
✤ Terra Madre 2012
✤ UNISG and continuing work
✤ Edible Columbus
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42. Join Us - 2014!
✤ Parma/Modena/Reggio-
Emilia
✤ Mantua / Bergamo
✤ Trentino-Alto Adige
✤ Balsamico, Parmigiano-
Reggiano, Honey, Wines, etc.!
✤ (No research work required)
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43. Tante Grazie!
Presentation PDF available at:
http://slideshare.net/ChristopherFink
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