GEO 509 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Isabella Beeton, Phaseolus Lunatus, Fibromyalgia
14 Apr 2018
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Food can harm us in various ways: with how easily it can become contaminated, how fats and other harmful ingredients are incorporated. There are various foods that are beneficial also: certain foods such as eggplants, raisons, lima beans, corn, figs, etc. Are good for certain body parts, organs, functions, etc. based on research by doctors and nutritionists. What is good for us and not good for us evolves. Foods that are good for humans now will be found unhealthy in the future. Isabella beeton wife of a successful publisher, she published a book in 1961 called book of house. She took recipes from cookbooks and other books. She has strong opinions about foods, and what people should and should not eat. She did not like potatoes, mangos, lobster, cheese, and tomatoes. This could have been because of how much of certain foods were available and people knew about them.
