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...Brattle Square Florists once devoted half of its space to selling fruit. Store manager Stephen Zedros says that the advent of airfreight made it easier to receive fresh flowers, so the store abandoned its fruit selling...
...earliest ancestors probably ate much as their cousins the apes did, foraging for fruits, shoots, nuts, tubers and other vegetation in the forests and savannas of Africa. Because most wild plants are relatively low in calories, it took constant work just to stay alive. Fruits, full of natural sugars like fructose and glucose, were an unusually concentrated source of energy, and the instinct to seek out and consume them evolved in many mammals long before humans ever arose. Fruit wasn't always available, but those who ate all they could whenever it was were more likely to survive and pass...
...though. As Berkeley's Milton points out, the brain's growth may have been facilitated by abundant animal protein, but the brain operates on glucose, the sugar that serves as the major fuel for cellular function. "The brain drinks glucose 24 hours a day," she says. The sugars in fruit and the carbohydrates in edible grains and tubers are particularly good sources of glucose...
...high in protein but very low in fat--only about 4%, compared with up to 36% in grain-fed supermarket beef. For another, our ancestors couldn't count on a steady supply of any particular food. Hunters might bring down a deer or a rabbit or nothing at all. Fruit might be in season, or it might not. A chunk of honeycomb might have as many calories as half a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts, but you might be able to get it once a year at best--and it wouldn't have...
...machines and risk avoidance curriculum. The criteria seem a bit squishy - having ?some level of physical activity? was the phys ed goal - but he did mention the key step of offering schools financial incentives for schools. This is something we need to do. From Tom Stenzel of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, we heard about a Department of Agriculture pilot program that gives free fruits and vegetables as snacks to school kids, combined with nutritional lessons. Right now only four states are participating, but there?s a push to expand it to eight states and, hopefully, more...