ANT371H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Enzyme, Nutrition, Weaning
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Food culture (cultural practices linked to foods) Japanese macaques also show evidence of food culture they wash potatoes in the water. Bring a holistic perspective to human nutrition. Inhabited the bodies of our foraging ancestors. Not all human ancestors used the same habitats. Nutrient profiles from our ancestor history are quite different than they are today. Mismatch between ancestral diet and modern diet. Human nutritional ecology = anthropology + nutritional science + nutritional ecology. Biology, ecology, nutritional behaviour, physiology, morphology and evolutionary biology. Broader understanding of vulnerability to nutritional disease (social and physiological) Nutritional security - more then having all the right nutrients, about having a sustainable diet that is sufficient to living a healthy life. Diversity of diet we have a lot of diversity in our diet (most communities) Prolonged period of breast-feeding in humans (~2-3 years) Dependent on milk for only 6 months. Prolonged period of parental dependency (for a primate)
