As these foods gradually displaced the minimally
processed wild plant and animal foods in hunter - gatherer diets, they adversely affected the following dietary indicators 1) glycemic load, 2), fatty acid composition, 3) macronutrient composition, 4) micronutrient density, 5) acid - base balance, 6) sodium - potassium ratio, and 7) fiber content.
Thus, universal characteristics of preagricultural human diets are helpful in understanding how the recent Western diet may subject modern populations to chronic disease: Before the development of farming and the domestication of livestock practices, dietary choices would have been necessarily limited to minimally
processed wild plant and animal foods.
Not exact matches
It is
wild to think about how much love and time is poured into each aspect of gardening: from the planning stage, to the
planting of the seeds, to the nurturing of small
plants, and finally the harvesting and food
processing.
Activities may include
plant dying using natural and
wild materials, weaving, spinning, felting and
processing raw fibers, and enjoying time spent with friends!
Generally, any mutations that are widespread in domestic
plants and animals but absent from their
wild relatives are assumed to have played a key role in the
process, spreading as people and their livestock moved across the globe.
«Gastrointestinal diseases are a major cause of mortality in
wild and captive pandas but scientists understand very little about their digestive
process,» says co-author Ashli Brown Johnson, state chemist and Mississippi State University associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and
plant pathology.
Legacy from our ancestors — limited diversity «In the domestication
process for agriculture, our Neolithic ancestors domesticated a rather small portion of
wild plants that had around them,» said Fowler.
domestication A
process of producing a tame version of an animal or
plant from a
wild one, which can take many generations.
«We then showed that this slower energy dissipation
process is active in
wild - type
plants under stress conditions, such as cold and high light, and that it limits oxidative damage to lipids.
Domestication (Doh - MES - ti - kay - shun) is the long and slow
process by which people have adapted
wild animals or
plants to be tame and useful.
Western diets have changed drastically over the past 150 years, during which the ratio of fats from fish and
wild plants to those from animal and vegetable oil sources, especially in
processed foods, has gone from 1:1 to 1:10.
Miyaki recommends: «Cut out
processed, man - made foods, and return to your evolutionary, ancestral, or cultural past by eating more real, natural foods like
wild animals and
plants.»
Wild or uncultivated
plants provide about four times the fiber of commercial
plants (13.3 grams of fiber per 100 grams versus 4.2 grams of fiber per 100 grams, respectively).4 Certainly, there are some benefits to switching from a standard Western diet to a paleo - type diet — highly
processed foods, refined carbohydrates, fried foods, and fast foods are eliminated, and fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds are encouraged.
Does the pattern of «wholesomeness» for most
plants follow the pattern of
Wild form < — Least domesticated < — More domesticated < — most domesticated < — Least
processed < — Most
processed?
SAHTA have stated in various publications that to ensure that the honeybush
plants and all of their species are protected, a sustainable rebalance of
wild and cultivated production of honeybush tea must occur, and we plan to be a large part of this rebalancing
process.
Before the development of agriculture and animal husbandry hominin dietary choices would have been necessarily limited to minimally
processed,
wild plant and animal foods.
Grizzly, which is based in Woodinville, Wash., sources Alaskan
wild salmon from its own
plants in Alaska, and when the company discovered that many parts of the
wild salmon were being discarded, they developed partnership agreements to extract the salmon oil with no extra
processing, allowing for quality ingredients with minimal footprint.
For example: 1)
plants giving off net CO2 in hot conditions (r / t aborbing)-- see: http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=46488 2)
plants dying out due to heat & drought &
wild fires enhanced by GW (reducing or cutting short their uptake of CO2 & releasing CO2 in the
process) 3) ocean methane clathrates melting, giving off methane 4) permafrost melting & giving off methane & CO2 5) ice & snow melting, uncovering dark surfaces that absorb more heat 6) the warming slowing the thermohaline ocean conveyor & its up - churning of nutrients — reducing marine
plant life & that carbon sink.
It's not a guidebook or how - to, although there is plenty of useful information on
wild food
plants and methods for harvesting or
processing them throughout the book, along with some recipes and anecdotes from Lerner's early attempts with
wild foods in the kitchen.