BALM – Proven as one of the healthiest approaches to bread in the world.
Based in the walled gardens of Dr. Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, UK, we tutor individuals and train bakers and healthcare professionals in Baking as Lifestyle Medicine (BALM). Personalising bread to your lifestyle, gut microbiome, and unique genetics for optimal health—tailoring fermentation, fibre, and diversity so that your daily bread becomes the foundation of your health.
Teaching BALM is about agency and empowerment: Teaching activism helps your students or patients to develop a sense of agency and empowerment, enabling them to become change agents in their communities and address social justice issues.
Part of this is developing critical consciousness; encouraging students and patients to engage in activism helps them develop critical consciousness, which involves questioning societal structures, recognizing oppression, and working towards social justice, in baking eating and sharing bread and joining the Sourdough club is about collective action:. Activism often involves collective action, fostering a sense of community and solidarity among my students and enabling them to work together to address social justice issues.
This feature is background information that helps contextualise the social justice in rejecting ultra processes foods by understanding the impact on the environment.
A comprehensive understanding of fostering change and social justice by actively addressing inequities and promoting empowerment, inclusion, and social change through argoeconomics
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All reasonable care is taken when advising about health aspects of bread, but the information that we share is not intended to take the place of treatment by a qualified medical practitioner. You must seek professional advice if you are in any doubt about any medical condition. Any application of the ideas and information contained on this website is at the reader's sole discretion and risk.
