HWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nutrition, Offal, Carbohydrate
13 Jan 2019
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Food is the fist of the essentials of life, the world"s largest industry, our most frequently indulged pleasure, the core of our most intimate social relationships . To describe the history of food, including: Evolution of the human diet and food culture. The 4 revolutions affecting civilization, food, and nutrition. Changes in food procurement and processing practices over time. The consequences on diet/dietary quality and critical events influencing the history of food. To describe the history of nutrition science. To describe the various functions of food in society. To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child -cicero: possible stages of evolution of human diets. 10 years ago + on going: timeline. Palaeolithic age agricultural revolution industrial revolution . Scientific revolution green revolution: data, methodologies, & limitations. Ethnographic atlas (dietary data collection: theory. Current dietary patterns have developed from changes in food production that began with the industrial revolution 200 years ago.
