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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...
...first day of spring occurred last week. Our thoughts turned to the approach of warm weather, and with it, the sluffing off of winter garments, and with that, the unavoidability of baring some of our flesh, and with that the need to diet...
...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...