Eat Like The Animals

What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating

David Raubenheimer, Stephen Simpson

• Publisher: Harvest
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781328587862
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nutrition, Dietics & Bariatrics

A New Scientist Best Book of 2020 Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right thingsin the proper amounts—perfect nutritional harmony. From wild baboons to gooey slime molds, most every living organism instinctually knows how to balance their diets, except modern-day humans. When and why did we lose this ability, and how can we get it back?

David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson reveal the answers to these questions in a gripping tale of evolutionary biology and nutritional science, based upon years of groundbreaking research. Their colorful scientific journey takes readers across the globe, from the foothills of Cape Town, to the deserts of Arizona, to a state-of-the-art research center in Sydney. Readers will encounter locusts, mice and even gorillas along the way as the scientists test their hypotheses on various members of the animal kingdom.

This epic scientific adventure culminates in a unifying theory of nutrition that has profound implications for our current epidemic of metabolic diseases and obesity. Raubenheimer and Simpson ultimately offer useful advice to understand the unwanted side effects of fad diets, gain control over one's food environment, and see that delicious and healthy are integral parts of proper eating.

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

NOTE: Page references in italics refer to figures and tables.

A

advergames, 155. See also marketing

aging

caloric restriction and, 62–65

protein target in late life, 175

agriculture

domesticated crops, 149

evolution and changing food environments, 115–119

UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 52–53

US Department of Agriculture, 160–163

Alavi, Shauhin, 104

American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 102–103

American Beverage Association, 158

American Psychological Association, 154–155

amino acids

aminostatic hypothesis, 27

common types of, 204

peptides, 106–107, 204

as protein building blocks, 11

protein turnover and, 168–171

restriction of, 65

amylase, 42

Anderson, Steven, 164

animals and animal experiments. See also insects and insect experiments; mice study

baboons, ix-xi, 112–113

bearded capuchin monkeys, 114, 134

cats, 40–44

dogs, 40–44, 118

golden palace monkeys, 97

gorillas, 101–102

green vervet monkeys, 112–113

orangutans, 103–107, 142, 144–146, 148

rabbit starvation phenomenon, 60–62

rats, 27–28

spider monkeys, 95–102

tammar wallaby, 45

yaks, 119–124

anthocyanins, 212

aposematism, 93

appetite, 21–30. See also human diet; protein target

Big Five nutrients and, 25–26

brain and appetite control, 24, 27–28, 155

defined, 26

fiber and nutrient balancing, 29

foraging and (See food environments)

hunger and, 27–28, 199

multiple appetites of locusts, 15–20, 16–18, 21–23, 28

taste and, 23–25

artificial flavors, chemicals in, 137

Atkins, Robert, 190

Australia

Australian Research Council Federation, 53–55

Hungry Jack advergame, 155

packaged foods for sale in, 136

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