Re: Anthropological Research Reveals Human Dietary Requirements for Optimal Health



Great Article! - PA


On Dec 22, 10:30 am, Leonardo <sunt_eu_pica...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anthropological Research Reveals Human
Dietary Requirements for Optimal Health
H. Leon Abrams, Jr., MA, EDS
Associate Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, ECJC,
University System of Georgia, Swainsboro, Georgia.

Journal of Applied Nutrition, 1982, 16:1:38-45
Reprinted with permission of the author.

Many claims are set forth stating what the "natural" diet of humans is
or should be, but in order to ascertain what constitutes the basic
dietary requirements for optimal health, the problem must be
approached from an anthropological perspective which encompasses the
total dietary evolution and history of mankind, a scrutinization and
syntheses of human diets from the earliest times to the present, the
diets of mankind's nearest relatives, the primates, and cross-cultural
dietary comparisons of primitive and modern societies.
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