Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hartl says he does not need the newnutrient counters to help determine his diet."This is not a rocket science," says Hartl, as heexplains his choice. "Broccoli, for example, is ahealthy food, everybody knows that...
...This figure has actually been dropping offover the past ten years," Heatherton says. "Also,more than half of students are actively on somesort of diet...
...used for hunting, as anthropologists once thought; H. habilis, on average, was less than 5 ft. tall and weighed under 100 lbs., and it could hardly have competed with the lions and leopards that stalked the African landscape. The hominids were almost certainly scavengers instead, supplementing a mostly vegetarian diet with meat left over from predators' kills. Even other scavengers -- hyenas, jackals and the like -- were stronger and tougher than early humans. But H. habilis presumably had the intelligence to anticipate the habits of predators and scavengers, and probably used tools to butcher leftovers quickly and get back to safety...
...early humans' adaptability let them move into new environments, Walker of Johns Hopkins believes, it was an increasingly carnivorous diet that drove them to do so. "Once you become a carnivore," he says, "the world is different. Carnivores need immense home ranges." H. erectus probably ate both meat and plants, as humans do today. But, says Walker, "there was a qualitative difference between these creatures and other primates. I think they actively hunted. I've always said that they should have gotten out of Africa as soon as possible." Could H. erectus have traveled all the way to Asia...
That contemporary version of a river raft belongs to Millroy, who enlists Jilly in his mission to purify America's digestive system. It's a sewer, he says, clogged with grease, sugar and the flesh of slaughtered mammals. The wizard preaches the loaves-and-fishes diet. His nutritional guide is the Bible: "The book of life. The book of food. The book of meals and miracles." % In its pages he finds the secrets of longevity and regularity. From Ezekiel come the ingredients for bread. Daniel serves lentils, and Nahum offers figs. Millet, barley, honeycombs and melons tumble from holy writ...