Handwashing and Plant Based Nutrition: Recurring Themes in Health Education

Authors

  • Jennifer Rooke

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47779/ajhs.2020.200

Keywords:

Plant-Based, COVID-19, handwashing

Abstract

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cites handwashing as the most effective way to prevent transmission of infectious diseases. Although unbelievable now, handwashing was considered extreme and impractical in the early 1980s. Acceptance that cleanliness could prevent infectious diseases took over 60 years. We may be in a similar place now with whole food plant-based nutrition (WFPBN) which is considered to be extreme and impractical by the mainstream medical community and supporting evidence is rejected or ignored. Countless lives have been lost by the medical community’s slow acceptance of lifesaving behavior changes.

Author Biography

Jennifer Rooke

Jennifer Rooke, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM, Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive, Atlanta GA 30310. Phone: 404-317-7268 

Published

2020-10-21

How to Cite

Rooke, J. (2020). Handwashing and Plant Based Nutrition: Recurring Themes in Health Education . American Journal of Health Studies, 35(2). https://doi.org/10.47779/ajhs.2020.200