11:709:201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Quran, Scurvy, Buddhism
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What is food: most foods consumed by humans are agricultural products. Influenced by what"s available (seasonal, cost, staple, inventory), economics, Ingredients are the agricultural or wild" products harvested or purchased. (real food) Let food be your medicine, and let medicine be your food. hippocrates. Must be met before a human can progress to the next level of the hierarchy. Primitive society learned through experience which foods satisfied hunger _ which foods were harmful and poisonous. Kosher dietary laws in o. t. were recorded as a warning to those who followed which food combinations were hazardous to human health. Often is linked to ethnic food choice since cultural+ethnic. Christianity: bread + wine; abstinence of meat on friday in lent. Buddhism: some consider the eating of flesh as cruel, so that vegetarianism is popular. Mormon: promotes avoidance of stimulants (coffee+tea) and alcohol; animal flesh sparingly used. Muslim: halal in koran; harmful are animals, blood, method of slaughter, carrion + intoxicants.