ANTHR207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Michael Pollan, Nutrition, Humorism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHR207
• Professor: Brent Hammer

Document Summary

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food hippocrates. The four humours: blood (hot and moist, phlegm (cold and moist, yellow bile (hot and dry, black bile (cold and dry) Poor food choices and increased risk of poor health. Break down to individual elements to understand how it might be beneficial to our food source. How does it impact their lives, how does it shape their culture, how does culture shape their foods. Knew of foods that would benefit them (with no scientific knowledge) but through culture practice and rituals. Use food to make us healthy, it"s about balancing. Properties of warming or cooling (not by the temperature of the food) Transform foods to make them more flavourful and more nutritious (cooking) Food is biological necessity (food is essential to life, must have it) Humans are food generalist (can choose to be vegetarian or vegan)