Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chinese food therapy
I see why an article created in 2002 that is still two-lines long in 2014 would be submitted for AfD, but there are plenty of |reliable sources out there to prove notability. (And I'm putting aside the five sources that are already cited in the article.) Ute Engelhardt's "Dietetics in Tang China and the first extant works of ''materia dietetica''" (in ''Innovation in Chinese Medicine'', Cambridge University Press, 2001) shows that the ''shiliao'' tradition goes back a long way. See also Vivienne Lo, "Pleasure, Prohibition, and Pain: Food and Medicine in China", in ''Of Tripod and Palate: Food, Politics, and Religion in Traditional China'' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005). There are two interesting vignettes on food therapy in TJ Hinrichs and Linda Barnes (editors), ''Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History'' (Harvard UP, 2013; see "Folk Nutritional Therapy" on pp. 259-260, and "Food Therapy" on pp. 339-341). For modern China, see Nancy Chen's ''Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health: Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture'' (Columbia UP, 2013). Abundant "Oprah" kind of literature is also listed in Talk:Chinese food therapy#Recomended References (''sic''). I think this is more than enough to prove notability. The address the nominator's and {{u|Tokyogirl79}}'s other concern, this topic is related to but distinct from Traditional Chinese Medicine, as "food therapy" is about dietetics and preventive hygiene rather than actual medical therapies. "Food therapy" also overlaps with Chinese cuisine, but the latter is much broader and not typically informed by therapeutic or preventive considerations. In light of all this, I think this page more than deserves to be kept
— User:Madalibi, 14:08, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)