Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.
The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.
Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.
In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.
If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.
So munch on, crunch on, take your nuncheon, Breakfast, supper, dinner, luncheon!
People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little whole grains and fruits and vegetables.Populations who eat that way have seriously high incidences of chronic diseases.
One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.
Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and things like that from eating large meals. The problem is it makes it harder for people to control the amount they're eating.
I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading.
Your bones are not just made of the last meal you had, but the meals that you've had across many years. By looking at the composition of those teeth, researchers can say that something was a large component of the diet. This tells us a lot about how hominins lived and what they ate.
