Plant power: SEEDing our future with plant-based eating

The climate crisis, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, are contributing to a shift in what people eat. For environmental sustainability, ethical, social justice, and health reasons, people are embracing plant-based diets, which involve consuming mostly fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans and little or no meat and dairy products. Drawing on insights from consumer psychology, this review synthesizes academic research at the intersection of food and consumer values to propose a framework for understanding how and why these values—Sustainability, Ethics, Equity, and Dining for health—are transforming what people eat. We term our model the SEED framework. We build this framework around a report assembled by the Rockefeller Foundation (2021) that describes how to grow a value-based societal food system. Finally, we highlight insights from consumer psychology that promote an understanding of how consumer values are shifting people's diets and raise research questions to encourage more consumer psychologists to investigate how and why values influence what consumers eat, which in turn impacts the well-being of people, our environment, and society. © 2022 Society for Consumer Psychology.

Leveraging Primary Care, Public Health and Social Context during the Covid-19 Response within in a University Setting: Considerations for the Osteopathic Family Physician

The COVID-19 pandemic placed a spotlight on both the successes and the needs across the spectrum of the healthcare system. The trusting, enduring relationships developed within the primary care setting served as an important foundation on which to build response strategies throughout the pandemic. Early detection and testing, implementation of telehealth, delivery of continuous comprehensive care, and vaccine education and administration are all key areas where primary care and public health systems successfully served patients and community. Emerging national research from the COVID-19 pandemic experience has also demonstrated the reduction in COVID-19 infection and death rates through the synergy between primary care, public health and social factors, emphasizing once again the critical role these services play and the importance of developing integration strategies for the future. In particular, the COVID-19 experience within the university setting served as a key example of this integration and synergy in action. As osteopathic family physicians, these experiences can serve as lessons learned toward embracing the opportunity afforded by our unique training, expertise and commitment to the osteopathic philosophy. Copyright © 2022 by the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. All rights reserved.