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Food, Science, and the Human Body
- Narrated by: Alyssa Crittenden
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
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Publisher's Summary
What foods did the human body evolve to eat, and why? How does the food we eat affect our genes and our minds? What foods are (and aren't) optimal for our everyday health? How can we use cutting-edge science to end world hunger?
In these 36 lectures, get eye-opening answers to these and other perplexing questions about the evolution of the human diet and its relationship to our bodies. Bringing together insights from a range of fields including history, anthropology, nutrition, economics, biology, and sociology, this exciting partnership between The Great Courses and National Geographic lays bare what science can teach us about food.
Taking you far beyond the supermarket and the laboratory, these lectures cross cultures, span time, and hop around the world from the most underfed to the most overfed human societies. Bringing a broad range of disciplines to these lectures, Dr. Crittenden offers an intriguing and illuminating catalog of some of the most pressing questions and concerns.
You'll compare and contrast food-related crises from mass starvation to obesity. You'll explore food trends and ideas, from the Mediterranean and MIND diets to the farm-to-table movement and the controversy surrounding GMOs. You'll bust common myths about how food acts on the body and mind. And you'll gain powerful scientific insights that will always be there in the back of your mind, every time you get hungry.
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- Sandeep
- 09-01-19
A delightful listening experience
It is a must hear for those who would like to know about history of food in general.
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- PANKAJ DESAI
- 29-08-19
Very interesting and informative
A very thoroughly researched and therefore very interesting book to listen to. The author reads her own work so well that you don't mind the book getting long. Absolutely scientific matter is placed before the listener without getting infected by any of the personal beliefs of the author herself. Being a slow listener who wants to savour every word, I took more than a month to complete it. Not even once did I feel the desire to terminate it midway or skip some portions. Congratulations!
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- AD
- 29-05-19
Elaborately covered.
Very Informative and extremely nicely narrated. I found this a good investment of my time
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- Prem kalia
- 17-07-19
Nice
Very good title to listen. Very Easy to understand and Knowledgeable. I like The Great courses titles
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