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Nation of Islam Dietary Reform: Food as Self-Determination

Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam articulated the most systematic African American food reform philosophy of the 20th century — published in How to Eat to Live (1967, 1972). Muhammad's dietary teachings were simultaneously a critique of the slave diet (pork, fried foods, corn whiskey, the offal given to enslaved people), a health reform program, and a statement of Black self-determination: to control what you eat is to control your body, and to control your body is a precondition of freedom.

Overview

The Nation of Islam's dietary philosophy and its techniques.

Source

AFRICA TO AMERICA — WA4: THE DEEPEST DIVE

Cross-Cuisine Parallels

Seventh-day Adventist dietary reform (same religious-health food reform — different specific content), Rastafarian ital food (same spiritual food reform as cultural self-determination), contemporary v