Marvin Harris is a Graduate Research Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. Eric B. Ross has taught at Mount Holyoke and the University of Michigan.
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"Many topics of interest to health professionals, such as vegetarianism, dietary fibers, lactose intolerance, favism, cannibalism and changes in nutritional status wrought by the decline of hunter-gathering and the rise of horticulture. Many sections will appeal to the general reader." --Journal of Applied Nutrition "Exceptionally well-edited. High quality individual papers are of comparable scope and are uniformly well referenced and detailed in presentation of supporting data Introductory and concluding chapters as well as section overviews create an integrated whole." --Choice "Compelling...complete and...recommended." --Science Books & Films "Should be of value to all nutrition educators who have an interest in the social, cultural, and international aspects of foods and nutrition." --Journal of Nutrition Education
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As we have seen a growing demand for food history writing this book aims at the core issue of Human Food Habits decision-making based on empirical data and elaborates on that to deductively arrive to determinant conclusions about the way we eat and how we have rationalize our diet options. I would say it is not a book for beginners rather a reference to provide an insightful and complete idea of the interaction of men and nature and the complex interrelationships that have been shaping our diet since the beginning of times. Conclusions provide a solid ground for food writers where the history of food becomes more than a descriptive process of happenings, hence enriching the study of gastronomy with explanations that may be applied through different time and space settings.
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food taboos, protein metabolism, foraging strategies, population adaptation, nonhuman primates, wild chimpanzees, agricultural involution, omnivorous primates, nutritional evaluation, harmful foodways, atta ruti, human food selection, gut proportions, fava bean consumption, bean avoidance, human foodways, primate legacy, cattle lobby, human food preferences, biocultural consequences, new garden site, bora grounds, subsistence ratios, hunting yields, cattle sector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, United States, Costa Rica, Third World, Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, University of Chicago Press, New World, Mexico City, Human Evolution, New Haven, Human Ecology, American Anthropologist, Latin America, Current Anthropology, Central America, Yale University Press, The Hague, Origins of Agriculture, American Ethnologist, Random House, American Anthropological Association, Natural History, Old World Browse Sample Pages:
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