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Dietetics.
Food -- Social aspects -- History.
Food habits -- History.
Food -- History.
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Crittenden, Alyssa N.
Dietetics.
Food -- Social aspects -- History.
Food habits -- History.
Food -- History.
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Food, science, and the human body [videorecording (DVD)] /
Alyssa
Crittenden
.
by
Crittenden
,
Alyssa
N
.
Teaching Company, 2017.
Call #:
DVD 613.2 C935f
Subjects
Dietetics.
Food -- Social aspects -- History.
Food habits -- History.
Food -- History.
Series
Great courses (DVD). Better living. Health & wellness.
Great courses (DVD)
ISBN:
9781629974224
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Description:
6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (vii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Notes:
Course no. 1940.
"National Geographic"--Container.
"36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Container.
Course guidebook includes lecture notes, biographical notes, and bibliographical references.
Home use only.
Closed-captioned.
Contents:
Disc 1. Paleo diets and the ancestral appetite -- Our hunter-gatherer past -- Stones, bones, and teeth -- Did eating meat make us human? -- Insects: the other white meat -- Was the Stone Age menu mostly vegetarian? -- Disc 2. Cooking and the control of fire -- The Neolithic revolution -- The changing disease-scape -- How foods spread around the world -- The history of the spice trade -- How sugar and salt shaped world history -- Disc 3. A brief history of bread -- The science and secrets of chocolate -- Water: the liquid of life -- Beer, mead, and the fun of fermentation -- Humanity's love of wine -- Coffee: love or addiction? -- Disc 4. The roots of tea -- The fizz on soda -- Food as ritual -- When people eat things that aren't food -- Food as recreational drugs -- Food as medicine -- Disc 5. The coevolution of genes and diet -- The scoop on poop -- The gut microbiome -- Brain food -- You are what your mother ate -- Civilization: diets and diseases -- Disc 6. What the world is eating -- The overnutrition epidemic -- World poverty and undernutrition -- Should the world eat meat? -- Should we be powered by plants? -- The future of food.
Production:
Alyssa
Crittenden
.
Performers:
Lecturer: Professor
Alyssa
Crittenden
, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Summary:
Join an award-winning anthropologist for an exploration of the evolution of the human diet and its relationship to our bodies.
Genre:
Filmed lectures.
Educational films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Teaching Company.
National Geographic Society (U.S.).
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