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**A fascinating tour through the evolution of the human diet, and how we can improve our health by understanding our complicated history with food.** There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health: eat a lot of meat, eat no meat; whole-grains are healthy, whole-grains are a disaster; eat everything in moderation; eat only certain foods—and on and on. In __One Hundred Million Years of Food__ biological anthropologist Stephen Le explains how cuisines of different cultures are a result of centuries of evolution, finely tuned to our biology and surroundings. Today many cultures have strayed from their ancestral diets, relying instead on mass-produced food often made with chemicals that may be contributing to a rise in so-called "Western diseases," such as cancer, heart disease, and obesity. Travelling around the world to places as far-flung as Vietnam, Kenya, India, and the...

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Author

Stephen, le

Publisher

Picador

Language

EN

Category

reference

Subjects

Technology, Food Manufacturing, Stem

Rating

3.53 / 5 (209 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14