Christopher Cumo

Ancestral Diets and Nutrition (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ancestral Diets and Nutrition supplies dietary advice based on the study of prehuman and human populations worldwide over the last two million years. This thorough, accessible and fully illustrated book uses prehistory and history as a laboratory for testing the health effects of various foods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000176094
• Artikelnr.: 60303209

Autorenporträt

Christopher Cumo is a historian with interests in the natural sciences and agriculture. He seeks

in some small way to illuminate how biology has shaped history. This is his ninth book and second

with CRC Press. Besides writing books, he has edited a three-volume encyclopedia and contributed

articles and reviews to journals, entries to encyclopedias, and articles and short fiction to magazines.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of
Figures...................................................................................................................................xv
List of
Tables....................................................................................................................................xxi
List of
Graphs.................................................................................................................................xxv
Preface..........................................................................................................................................xxvii
Acknowledgments..........................................................................................................................xxix
Author............................................................................................................................................xxxi
Chapter 1 Introduction and
Method...............................................................................................1
Chapter 2 Components of Nutrition: Calories, Carbohydrates, Fat, Protein,
Minerals,
Vitamins, Phytochemicals, and
Water........................................................................27
Chapter 3 Changing Circumstances and
Diets............................................................................
61
Chapter 4
Meat.............................................................................................................................
91
Chapter 5 Fish and
Shellfish......................................................................................................
121
Chapter 6 Poultry and
Eggs.......................................................................................................
149
Chapter 7
Dairy..........................................................................................................................
179
Chapter 8
Legumes....................................................................................................................207
Chapter 9
Nuts...........................................................................................................................
241
Chapter 10
Fat..............................................................................................................................
267
Chapter 11 Sweeteners: Honey, Sucrose, and High Fructose Corn
Syrup.................................. 295
Chapter 12
Grains........................................................................................................................
323
Chapter 13 Roots and
Tubers.......................................................................................................
355
Chapter 14
Fruits.........................................................................................................................
391
Chapter 15
Vegetables..................................................................................................................
417
Chapter 16
Conclusion.................................................................................................................
439
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................447
Index...............................................................................................................................................483