Nutritionally Illiterate: Was the Death of Home Ec the Death of Us?

Podcast: LifeBlood · LifeBlood

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

We talk constantly about financial literacy. But what about nutritional literacy? Think about how strange this is: You can spend the first 18 years of your life being fed by other people, then suddenly become responsible for feeding yourself three times a day for the rest of your life—with almost no training whatsoever. For generations, home economics classes taught practical skills like cooking, nutrition, meal planning, shopping, budgeting, and household management. Those programs haven't completely disappeared, but somewhere along the way, learning how to feed yourself stopped being a fundamental part of becoming an...