Ethnic studies professor strives to educate students on sound nutrition

• June 16, 2011 5:00am

Luz Calvo, associate professor of ethnic studies, is featured in a story in the “Oakland Local” on her highly successful attempt spring quarter to educate students in basic food knowledge.

ES 3999 – Ethnic Studies meets the Cooking Channel – was so successful that Calvo is hoping to make it a part of the regular curriculum at Cal State East Bay.

Calvo learned sound food sense growing up. She’s been a vegetarian since 1990, and a propagator of her own biodiverse, organic food as of 2006, when she was diagnosed with cancer. 

Read about Calvo’s attempt to reclaim health and vitality, as well as her ancestral foods of Mexico

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