Stephen Le

100 Million Years of Food (eBook, ePUB)

What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating tour through the evolution of the human diet and how we can improve our health by understanding our complicated history with food.

There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health: eat a lot of meat, eat no meat; whole grains are healthy, whole grains are a disaster; eat everything in moderation; eat only certain foods--and on and on. In 100 Million Years of Food, biological anthropologist Stephen Le explains how cuisines of different cultures are a result of centuries of evolution, finely tuned to our biology and surroundings.

Today many cultures have strayed from their ancestral diets, relying instead on mass-produced food often made with chemicals that may be contributing to a rise in so-called Western diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and obesity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250050427
• Artikelnr.: 43807975

Autorenporträt

Stephen Le

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Introduction: What Should We Eat and How Should We Live? 1
The Irony of Insects 7
The Games Fruits Play 17
The Temptation of Meat 43
The Paradox of Fish 61
The Empire of Starches 81
Elixirs 101
A Truce Among Thieves 115
The Calorie Conundrum 147
The Future of Food 175
Afterword: Rules to Eat and Live By 215
ENDNOTES 225
BIBLIOGRAPHY 249
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 295
INDEX 299