Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and CultureWaveland Press, 1998 M07 2 - 289 páginas Why are human food habits so diverse? Why do Americans recoil at the thought of dog meat? Jews and Moslems, pork? Hindus, beef? Why do Asians abhor milk? In Good to Eat, best-selling author Marvin Harris leads readers on an informative detective adventure to solve the worlds major food puzzles. He explains the diversity of the worlds gastronomic customs, demonstrating that what appear at first glance to be irrational food tastes turn out really to have been shaped by practical, economic, or political necessity. In addition, his smart and spirited treatment sheds wisdom on such topics as why there has been an explosion in fast food, why history indicates that its bad to eat people but good to kill them, and why children universally reject spinach. Good to Eat is more than an intellectual adventure in food for thought. It is a highly readable, scientifically accurate, and fascinating work that demystifies the causes of myriad human cultural differences. |
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... of the proteins in plant foods. The nutritional importance of protein is that the body uses it to promote and regulate tissue growth. Muscles, organs, cells, hormones, and enzymes all consist of different kinds of proteins MEAT HUNGER 31.
... body's thousands of different proteins. Out of molecules obtained through eating other kinds of nutrients such as starches, sugar, vegetable fats, and water, the body itself can synthesize twelve of these amino acids. But there are ten ...
... body. They therefore cease to be useful for protein assembly more quickly than animal foods since the the least abundant essential amino acids in plants are precisely the ones most needed by the human body. For example, humans need ...
... body weight per day, an increase of 30 percent over 1973 standards. The pro-protein nutritionists had long been ... body mobilizes all the amino acids it can draw on from muscles and other tissues and converts them into glucose for extra ...
... body fluids. Transit time in the human gut is quite fast. It takes human subjects who swallow small plastic markers with their meals only about twenty-five hours to pass them in their stools. What this evidence indicates is that our gut ...
Contenido
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The Abominable Pig
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Hippophagy
| 88 |
Holy Beef USA
| 109 |
Lactophiles and Lactophobes Milk Lovers and Milk Haters
| 130 |
Small Things
| 154 |
Dogs Cats Dingoes and Other Pets
| 175 |
People Eating
| 199 |
Better to Eat
| 235 |
References | 249 |
Bibliography | 258 |
Index | 275 |