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Likewise, the components of our diet have undergone a radical change. The flesh of the wild game that made up our ancestors' diet had just 3% to 4% fat, whereas prime beef has 30% or more. And prior to the domestication of crops such as wheat and corn, humans consumed a variety of wild grains filled with fiber, which slows digestion. The process of highly refining foods, which allows carbohydrates to be quickly absorbed by the digestive system, wasn't widespread. As Rutgers University anthropologist Lionel Tiger puts it, human metabolism "did not evolve for prime beef, but, one would...
...southeastern Guyana for a $20,000 up-front fee and annual payments of 15[cents] an acre. Even where loggers cannot be bought out, the damage they do can be reduced. In the Congo the Wildlife Conservation Society has persuaded the German firm CIB to feed its workers beef and chicken instead of wild bush meat from its logging concessions next to Nouable-Ndoki National Park...
...scholars myself. At that time, the only Western choice available was McDonald's. What we would have given for the Skyways Bakery in my day! This inconspicuous caf? and deli is tucked among the Chinese restaurants and vendors lining West Hankou Street, offering classic homesickness remedies such as roast beef sandwiches and Italian ice cream sundaes...
...didn't want a 60th birthday party but agreed to it under pressure lest I be thought a sorehead, and so all my jowly friends with thin dead hair sang Happy Birthday in their horrible ruined voices and we sat eating aged beef and heirloom tomatoes with a dry but experienced Chardonnay and old pals woofed about how happy and busy they are in retirement and gave me dumb birthday cards ("Welcome to the Incontinence Hotline ... Can you hold, please?") and a cake blazed up like the Hindenburg and some people I knew back when they were fun told...
...lunchtime at the Whole Foods supermarket in Plano, Texas, as artist Raquel Brownfield, 57, pulls into the parking lot in her red BMW roadster. She is about to enter foodie heaven: a grocery store brimming with everything from fresh organic produce and dried beans to slabs of hormone-free beef and boysenberry pies. "I usually go in thinking I'm going to spend under $30," says Brownfield, who visits the store a couple of times a week, "but I spend between...