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Food, Science, and the Human Body

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17 hours 54 minutes
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Join an award-winning anthropologist for an exploration of the evolution of the human diet and its relationship to our bodies.

Syllabus

01: Paleo Diets and the Ancestral Appetite
02: Our Hunter-Gatherer Past
03: Stones, Bones, and Teeth
04: Did Eating Meat Make Us Human?
05: Insects: The Other White Meat
06: Was the Stone Age Menu Mostly Vegetarian?
07: Cooking and the Control of Fire
08: The Neolithic Revolution
09: The Changing Disease-Scape
10: How Foods Spread around the World
11: The History of the Spice Trade
12: How Sugar and Salt Shaped World History
13: A Brief History of Bread
14: The Science and Secrets of Chocolate
15: Water: The Liquid of Life
16: Beer, Mead, and the Fun of Fermentation
17: Humanity's Love of Wine
18: Coffee: Love or Addiction?
19: The Roots of Tea
20: The Fizz on Soda
21: Food as Ritual
22: When People Eat Things That Aren't Food
23: Food as Recreational Drugs
24: Food as Medicine
25: The Coevolution of Genes and Diet
26: The Scoop on Poop
27: The Gut Microbiome
28: Brain Food
29: You Are What Your Mother Ate
30: Civilization: Diets and Diseases
31: What the World Is Eating
32: The Overnutrition Epidemic
33: World Poverty and Undernutrition
34: Should the World Eat Meat?
35: Should We Be Powered by Plants?
36: The Future of Food
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Taught by

Alyssa Crittenden

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