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human diet
Also known as: human diet, human diets
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Evolutionary Eating — What We Can Learn From Our Primitive Past todaysdietitian.com Apr 1, 2009 3 facts
perspectiveLoren Cordain posits that the evolution of the human diet may explain the emergence of modern chronic diseases, as many of these conditions manifested only after the advent of agriculture.
claimThe Industrial Age exacerbated declines in nutritional health by introducing an abundance of high-density foods to human diets.
claimThe advent of agriculture, animal husbandry, and food industrialization broadened the food supply, allowing for the introduction of new foods and altering the nutritional characteristics of the average human diet.
The Evolution of Human Nutrition carta.anthropogeny.org Dec 7, 2012 2 facts
claimMicrobial ecosystems have made important contributions to the evolution of the human diet, including the production of energy and micronutrients that have implications for human brain evolution.
claimThe special feature of the human diet from an evolutionary perspective is the method of food preparation rather than the specific ingredients.
Assessment of the nutritional value of a wild edible plant Scorzonera ... discovery.researcher.life Dec 1, 2025 2 facts
claimWild edible plants from the Eastern Anatolia grasslands of Turkey could serve as affordable sources of minerals in human diets and help address mineral deficiencies in rural areas.
claimWild food plants grow naturally and serve as essential components of the human diet and the conventional food chain.
Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 2 facts
claimTerence McKenna argued that the presence of psychedelics in the early human diet drove the rapid reorganization of the brain's information-processing capacities by catalyzing the emergence of self-reflective consciousness and language.
referenceTimothy Johns explored the chemical ecology and origins of human diet and medicine in the 1990 book 'With Bitter Herbs They Shall Eat it'.
A novel approach to assess diet diversity - PMC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Oct 19, 2023 2 facts
referenceThe Nutritional Functional Diversity (NFD) indicator is a metric originally proposed by ecologists that researchers adapted to measure diversity in the human diet.
claimThe authors of the study published in PMC10620300 adapted the Nutritional Functional Diversity (NFD) indicator, which was originally proposed by ecologists, to measure diversity in the human diet.
The Evolutionary Impact of Dietary Shifts on Physical and Cognitive ... ouci.dntb.gov.ua 2 facts
referenceEvolutionary basis for the human diet and its consequences for human health were examined by Andrews.
perspectiveThe authors argue that technological innovations in food preparation have gradually distanced human diets from their evolutionary origins, impacting gut health, microbial diversity, and long-term disease risk.
The role of Plant Foods in the evolution and Dispersal of early Humans kernsverlag.com Jul 30, 2022 2 facts
referencePontzer and Wood (2021) analyzed the effects of evolution, ecology, and economy on human diet, drawing insights from hunter-gatherers and other small-scale societies.
referenceWrangham (2007) authored 'The Cooking Enigma', a chapter in 'Evolution of the Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable', which explores the role of cooking in human evolution.
Health and environmental impacts of diets worldwide globalnutritionreport.org 1 fact
claimThe 2021 Global Nutrition Report states that to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to avoid dangerous levels of global warming, it is necessary to prioritize policy initiatives aimed at reducing the amounts of animal-based foods in human diets, a change that is also warranted on health grounds.
Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in the mountainous ... link.springer.com Oct 4, 2024 1 fact
claimWild edible plants can supplement human diets during periods of food scarcity or famine by providing a diverse range of nutritional possibilities.
(PDF) Human Evolution - ResearchGate researchgate.net Sep 26, 2025 1 fact
claimThe human diet has undergone significant alterations since the divergence of the human and chimpanzee/bonobo lineages.
Future of Food Series Part IV: The Evolution of Diet harmonyvalleyfarm.blogspot.com Sep 11, 2014 1 fact
quoteLeslie Aiello, president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, stated: “What bothers a lot of paleoanthropologists is that we actually didn’t have just one caveman diet. The human diet goes back at least two million years. We had a lot of cavemen out there.”
Paleolithic nutrition: twenty-five years later. - Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org 1 fact
claimThe human diet has evolved from a composition of wild meat, fruits, and tubers to one that includes modern processed foods such as candy, donuts, and pizza.
(PDF) Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Diet and Nutrition academia.edu 1 fact
accountApproximately 10,000 years ago, prior to the Agricultural Revolution, the human diet was based on an enormous variety of wild plants.
Nutritional Evolution – Human Origin and Evolution ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in 1 fact
referenceIsaac, G. L. and Sept, J. M. (1988) authored 'Long term History of Human Diet' in the book 'The eating disorders: Medical and psychological bases of diagnosis and treatment', edited by Blinder, B. J., Chaitin, B. F., and Goldstein, R. S., published by PMA Publishing Corporation in New York.
Implications of the Western Diet for Agricultural Production, Health ... frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimIncluding insects in human diets provides benefits for both health and carbon footprint reduction, as supported by studies cited by Van Huis in 2013.
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claimWild foods can enhance human diets and promote health, longevity, and sustainability.
How do we know what they ate? - The Australian Museum australian.museum Oct 21, 2020 1 fact
claimMeat became a significant part of the human diet approximately two million years ago.
the evolutionary impact of dietary shifts on physical and cognitive ... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Jul 25, 2024 1 fact
claimFuture integration of paleogenomics, paleoproteomics, paleoglycomics, and paleometabolomics is expected to provide a more nuanced understanding of early human ancestors' diets, potentially guiding contemporary dietary recommendations and addressing modern health challenges.
the evolutionary impact of dietary shifts on physical and cognitive ... connect.uclahealth.org Jul 29, 2024 1 fact
claimHuman physical and cognitive development, health, and disease are influenced by the specific foods humans consume, the timing of consumption, and the methods of eating.
The Evolution of Diet - National Geographic nationalgeographic.com 1 fact
claimHarvard primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that the most significant revolution in the human diet occurred when humans learned to cook, rather than when they began eating meat.