Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom"Nourishment will change the way you eat and the way you think."—Mark Schatzker, author of The Dorito Effect "[Provenza is] a wise observer of the land and the animals [and] becomes transformed to learn the meaning of life."—Temple Grandin Reflections on feeding body and spirit in a world of change Animal scientists have long considered domestic livestock to be too dumb to know how to eat right, but the lifetime research of animal behaviorist Fred Provenza and his colleagues has debunked this myth. Their work shows that when given a choice of natural foods, livestock have an astoundingly refined palate, nibbling through the day on as many as fifty kinds of grasses, forbs, and shrubs to meet their nutritional needs with remarkable precision. In Nourishment Provenza presents his thesis of the wisdom body, a wisdom that links flavor-feedback relationships at a cellular level with biochemically rich foods to meet the body’s nutritional and medicinal needs. Provenza explores the fascinating complexity of these relationships as he raises and answers thought-provoking questions about what we can learn from animals about nutritional wisdom.
On a broader scale Provenza explores the relationships among facets of complex, poorly understood, ever-changing ecological, social, and economic systems in light of an unpredictable future.
Provenza’s paradigm-changing exploration of these questions has implications that could vastly improve our health through a simple change in the way we view our relationships with the plants and animals we eat. "Nourishment is a conversation between science, culture, and a greater spiritual or cosmological umbrella."—Montana Public Radio |
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In 2013, few adults in the United States met recommendations for eating vegetables (8.9 percent) or fruits (13.1 percent). Most children don't like fruits or vegetables due to lack of flavors and of experience. Intake of vegetables can ...
For example, by the time broccoli is purchased at a store, typically ten days to two weeks since harvest, it loses more than 75 to 80 percent of health-promoting phytochemicals, 50 percent of its vitamin C, and most of its sugars and ...
A Consumer Reports survey found pesticides are a concern for 85 percent of Americans.38 The risk of ingesting large amounts of pesticides varies from low to high, depending on the country where it is grown and the type of produce.
Prohibiting use of synthetic pesticides under organic farming standards results in a more than four-fold reduction in the number of crops with pesticide residues.39 The pesticide residues present in 11 percent of organic crops are due ...
... percent of global food consumption. Today, the challenges we face aren't necessarily due to lack of food, but due to lack of food quality. We've reduced concentrations of primary and secondary compounds in plants to increase yields, ...
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Índice
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Undermining the Wisdom Body | 83 |
Medicating in Natures Pharmacy | 101 |
Creating Nourishing Bouquets | 138 |
The Harmony of Nature | 257 |
Alice in Wonderland | 272 |
The Mystery of Being | 294 |
A Visitors Reflections | 309 |
Acknowledgments | 327 |
Bibliography | 377 |
Index | 383 |
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| Título | Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom |
| Autor | Fred Provenza |
| Editor | Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018 |
| ISBN | 1603588035, 9781603588034 |
| N.º de páginas | 416 páginas |
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