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100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today

100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today - Paperback

by Stephen Le
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Availability:In StockContributor:Stephen LePublish date:2018-01-09Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9781250117885ISBN-10:1250117887UPC:9781250117885Book Category:Social Science, CookingBook Subcategory:Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science, HistoryBook Topic:Public PolicySize:8.90 x 5.80 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCCVMVHCCW

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9781250117885ISBN-10:1250117887UPC:9781250117885Book Category:Social Science, CookingBook Subcategory:Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science, HistoryBook Topic:Public PolicySize:8.90 x 5.80 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCCVMVHCCW
Stephen Le is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa. He received a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2010 where he was a recipient of a UCLA Chancellor's Fellowship and a National Science Foundation grant for his fieldwork in Vietnam. 100 Million Years of Food is his first book.
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL

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