ANTH 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Juice, Corn Syrup, Glucose
27 Jul 2018
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Lecture 8: food - ideology, symbolism and power: In the us (a contemporary developed environment) food is different from the ancestral environment: surplus of food, food is easy to access, food technology and energy dense foods. Increased eating time: people in us eat faster than people in france, meals could last longer- several hours. In the us this only may happen on holiday celebration. Added sugar : how much are your kids really consuming, must monitor how much sugar is in the drink your kids are consuming, sugar drinks. Island of bali - plastic pollution on the shores of bali. Lecture 9: cassava, domesticated in south america, crop staple and dietary staple. Nigeria, indonesia, thailand, democratic republic of the congo, ghana and brazil are all top producers of cassava. Fascinating from a nutritional and anthropological perspective, is that cassava root, leaves and pills contain cyanide. Amount of cyanide in cassava varies from one variety to the next.
