Food is everywhere because everybody has to eat. At the same time, food is politics.
Looking at food tells us a how societies work, in history as well as in the present. What we produce, what we buy, and what we eat provide evidence about ourselves: our values, social status, culture, history, and health. We are constantly called upon to choose our diet carefully to become (or stay) healthy and fit. If nothing else, recent proclamations of health crises such as that of “obesity” speak to the political character of food, eating, and the body. Food at once reflects and helps determine whose lives count as valuable or not.
Food, Fatness and Fitness (http://foodfatnessfitness.com) is a blog that was launched in 2015 addresses the power, politics, and practices of food and eating. It is a multidisciplinary forum for reflections about food and diet and their link to health, society, body, and the self. We aim to connect the historical with the present, the global with the local, and life sciences with cultural studies. We seek contributions by scholars working in history, sociology, food studies, life sciences and the humanities.

For contributions, please send an email with an abstract of no more than 200 words to the editors Evangelia Kindinger (Humboldt University in Berlin) and Nina Mackert (University of Leipzig) at: proposals@foodfatnessfitness.com. There is no deadline, we accept contributions all year long. For more information on contributing, see http://foodfatnessfitness.com/contribute/.

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