The human diet in evolutionary perspective
A. Nonhuman Primate heritage
1. Milton, K. 1987 Primate diets and gut morphology: implications for hominid evolution. In Food and evolution: Toward a Theory of human food habits. M. Harris and E.B. Ross, eds. Temple Univ. Press Pp. 93-116.
2. Lieberman, L. 1987 Biocultural consequences of animals versus plants as sources of fats, proteins and other nutrients. In: Food and evolution: Toward a Theory of human food habits. M. Harris and E.B. Ross, eds. Temple Univ. Press Pp. 225-258.
B. Hominid Dietary Patterns: The Fossil Record and the Paleolithic Prescription.
1.Gordon, K. D. 1987 Evolutionary perspectives on human diet. In: Nutritional Anthropology F. E. Johnston (ed). A.R. Liss, N.Y. Pp3-40.
2.Eaton, S. B., M. Shostak and M. Konner. 1988 The Paleolithic Prescription. Chap. 4. The Stone Age Diet. (p. 69-87). Harper & Row Publisher.
3. Eaton, S. B., M. Shostak and M. Konner. 1988 The Paleolithic Prescription. Chap.3: The Discordance Hypothesis (p 38-68) Harper & Row Publisher (Knight ).
C. The Human Diet in Biological Perspective: Crash course in human nutrition. (Knight Library Reserve) Rischer, C.E. and T. A. Easton 1995 Focus on Human Biology. Harper Collins Publ.
Chapter 21: The Digestive System. Pp. 398-416
Chapter 23: Nutrition. Pp. 435-455.
Chapter 22: Energy Metabolism. Pp. 417- 434.
Food Production Systems
A. Seeds of Change/ World Wide Distribution of Cultigens/ Dietary Revolutions and Three Food Transitions.
1. Sociology on The Menu. Beardsworth, A. And T. Keil.
Part I: The Social Dimensions of the Food System:
B. Lock and key hypothesis & World wide distribution of cultigens.
1. Katz, S. 1987 Food and Biocultural Evolution: A Model For the Investigation of Modern Nutritional Problems. In Nutritional Anthropology. F.E. Johnston (ed). A. R. Liss, Inc., N.Y. Pp 41-63.
C. Food Classification.
1. Sociology on the Menu:
2. Kahn, M. 1986 Always Hungry, Never Greedy. Waveland Press: Prospect heights, Ill.
D. Contemporary Eating Patterns.
1. Levenstein, H. 1993 Paradox of Plenty. Oxford University Press: N.Y
2. Sociology on the Menu:
a. Chapter 5: Eating Out (pp. 100-124)
A. Human growth and development: Crash course:
1. Relethford, J. H. 1994 The Human Species. Chapter 14 Human Growth. Mayfield Publ. Co.:CA. (knight library reserve)
2. Frisancho, A.R. 1993 Human Adaptation and Accommodation. University of Michigan Press.
Chapter:
a. Accommodation to acute and chronic malnutrition during growth. PP 357-380
b. Obesity: Accommodation and adaptation to variability in dietary supply. PP.427
B. Cultural construction of the healthy diet
1. Sociology on the Menu:
a. Chapter 6: Changing Conceptions of Diet and Health. (Pp. 125-149)
b. Chapter 7: Food Risks, Anxieties and Scares. (Pp 150- 172)
2. Levenstein, H. 1993 Paradox of Plenty. Oxford University Press: N.Y.
C. Anthropological approach to Malnutrition: PCM, Obesity, Eating disorders.
1. Sociology on the Menu.
Chapter 8: Dieting, Fat and Body Image. (Pp. 173-192)
2. Czajka-Narins, D. and E. Parkham.
1990 Fear of fat: Attitudes toward obesity. Nutrition
Today 25: 26-32.
3. Berg, F. 1995 Eating Disorders Affect Both Mind and Body.
Healthy Weight
Journal. March/April
1995.
A. Defining and identifying hunger: Cultural constructions and Biological dimensions
1. Poppendieck, J. Hunger in America: Typification and Response. In: Eating Agendas. Pp.11- 34.
2. Fitchen, J.M. 1988 Hunger, malnutrition, and poverty in the contemporary United States: Some observations on their social and cultural context. Food and Foodways 2:309-333.
3. Levenstein, H. 1993 Paradox of Plenty. Oxford University Press: N.Y.
4. Foster, P. 1992 Philosophical Approaches to Undernutrition. In: The World Food Problem. Lynne Rienner Publ: Boulder. Pp. 203-216.