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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... 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 is not well adapted for high-fiber diets; rather, we seem MEAT HUNGER 37.
... diets; rather, we seem to be adapted to “high quality dietary items that are volumetrically concentrated and rapidly digested.” Animal foods are exactly what this formula calls for. Alarming reports about diets deficient in fiber long ...
... diets. In general, societies which consume large quantities of cholesterol and animal fats have higher mortality rates from heart attacks. Also, as shown by several studies, lowering cholesterol levels lowers the risk of coronary heart ...
... dietary and nondietary risk factors as they interact with cholesterol and animal fat among people who have modern life-styles. The state of understanding of the linkage between animal foods and cancer is no less fragmentary. Dietary fat ...
... dietary cholesterol for the entire population starting in childhood. Also, there may be hidden dangers in reducing fat intake. Fat, after all, is necessary for a healthy diet if for no other reason than it is needed for the absorption ...
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The Abominable Pig
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Hippophagy
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Holy Beef USA
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Lactophiles and Lactophobes Milk Lovers and Milk Haters
| 130 |
Small Things
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Dogs Cats Dingoes and Other Pets
| 175 |
People Eating
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Better to Eat
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References | 249 |
Bibliography | 258 |
Index | 275 |