The debate goes back to Plato, who, in "The Republic," shows Socrates distinguishing the "healthy State" — of sustenance — from the "luxurious" one, at "fever heat," with the need for constant growth as it devotes ever more resources to its superstructure of comforts and cultural productions.
The extreme popularity of quinoa in recent years has been devastating for poor communities in South America, which have long relied on the healthy grain as sustenance.
This all means that when shark populations start to decline, our oceans suffer--as do all of us who depend on healthy oceans for sustenance, food, jobs, and simple enjoyment.
Topics include brain modeling over multiple scales and levels of analysis, and the use of these models to understand psychiatric dysfunction, its remediation, and the sustenance of healthy cognition through the lifespan.
Fast food is certainly not healthy, but does become a sustenance crutch for some.
On nearly every page of this book, the contributors share seldom heard stories of ordinary people organizing to produce healthy, sustainable, affordable, and culturally appropriate sustenance for all.
Those services - from hospitals through to schools and universities, museums, festivals, public transport, police, local agricultural sustenance through to sound policy, etc are what permit my family to live healthy, productive and creative lives.
For decades, travelers have journeyed to spas not only for healthy food and daily massages but also for spiritual sustenance, a chance to look inward in a pampering environment.
