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Food, Science & the Human Body

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This course surveys how food has influenced human evolution, culture, health, and civilization, from hunter-gatherer diets and cooking to the gut microbiome and global nutrition challenges. It also examines food history, disease, and debates over meat, plant-based diets, and the future of food.

Syllabus

  • Paleo Diets & the Ancestral Appetite
  • Our Hunter-Gatherer Past
  • Stones, Bones & Teeth
  • Did Meat Eating Make Us Human?
  • Insects: The Other White Meat
  • Was the Stone Age Menu Mostly Vegetarian?
  • Cooking & 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 & Sale Shaped World History
  • A Brief History of Bread
  • The Science & Secrets of Chocolate
  • Water: The Liquid of Life
  • Beer, Mead & the Fun of Fermentation
  • Humanity's Love of Wine
  • Coffee: Love or Addiction?
  • 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
  • The Coevolution of Genes & Diet
  • The Scoop on Poop
  • The Gut Microbiome
  • Brain Food
  • You Are What Your Mother Ate
  • Civilization: Diets & Diseases
  • What the World Is Eating
  • The Overnutrition Epidemic
  • World Poverty & Undernutrition
  • Should the World Eat Meat?
  • Should We Be Powered by Plants?
  • The Future of Food

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