| Description |
6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
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Great courses. Better living. Health & wellness |
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Great courses (DVD). Better living.
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| Note |
"Course no. 1940." |
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"Better living : health & wellness"--Container. |
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"National Geographic"--Container. |
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Course guidebook includes lecture notes, biographical notes, and bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Paleo Diets and the Ancestral Appetite -- Our Hunter-Gatherer Past -- Stones, Bones, and Teeth -- Did Eating Meat Make Us Human? -- Insects: The Other White Meat -- Was the Stone Age Menu Mostly Vegetarian? |
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Disc 2. Cooking and the Control of Fire -- The Neolithic Revolution -- The Changing Disease-Scape -- How Foods Spread around the World -- The History of the Spice Trade -- How Sugar and Salt Shaped World History. |
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Disc 3. A Brief History of Bread -- The Science and Secrets of Chocolate -- Water: The Liquid of Life -- Beer, Mead, and the Fun of Fermentation -- Humanity's Love of Wine -- Coffee: Love or Addiction? |
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Disc 4. The Roots of Tea -- The Fizz on Soda -- Food as Ritual -- When People Eat Things that Aren't Food -- Food as Recreational Drugs -- Food as Medicine. |
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Disc 5. The Coevolution of Genes and Diet -- The Scoop on Poop -- The Gut Microbiome -- Brain Food -- You Are What Your Mother Ate -- Civilization: Diets and Diseases. |
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Disc 6. What the World Is Eating -- The Overnutrition Epidemic -- World Poverty and Undernutrition -- Should the World Eat Meat? -- Should We Be Powered by Plants? -- The Future of Food. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Professor Alyssa Crittenden, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. |
| Summary |
Join an award-winning anthropologist for an exploration of the evolution of the human diet and its relationship to our bodies. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Language |
In English. |
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Closed Captioned for the hearing impaired. |
| Subject |
Dietetics -- Videodiscs.
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Nutrition -- Videodiscs.
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Food -- Social aspects -- History -- Videodiscs.
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Food habits -- History -- Videodiscs.
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Food -- History -- Videodiscs.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781629974224 |
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1629974226 |
| Music No. |
ID1940A-01 Teaching Company |
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PB1940A Teaching Company |
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1940 Teaching Company |
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