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    Discuss Man's Transition in Diets As This Country Has Progressed From From An Agricultural Economy To A Technological Economy

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    Man's transition in diets coincided with economic and technological changes. As the agricultural economy shifted to an industrial one in developed nations, people moved from rural to urban areas. Suburban living provided a compromise between density and access to jobs and services in cities. This lifestyle change accompanied America's transition from an agricultural to industrial/urban economy enabled by new suburban infrastructure. Prehistoric humans relied heavily on animal fat and organ meats for nutrition since grains were scarce. When grains became available after the agricultural revolution, it introduced dietary changes but the long-term health impacts are still debated today.

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    Man's transition in diets coincided with economic and technological changes. As the agricultural economy shifted to an industrial one in developed nations, people moved from rural to urban areas. Suburban living provided a compromise between density and access to jobs and services in cities. This lifestyle change accompanied America's transition from an agricultural to industrial/urban economy enabled by new suburban infrastructure. Prehistoric humans relied heavily on animal fat and organ meats for nutrition since grains were scarce. When grains became available after the agricultural revolution, it introduced dietary changes but the long-term health impacts are still debated today.

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    Man's transition in diets coincided with economic and technological changes. As the agricultural economy shifted to an industrial one in developed nations, people moved from rural to urban areas. Suburban living provided a compromise between density and access to jobs and services in cities. This lifestyle change accompanied America's transition from an agricultural to industrial/urban economy enabled by new suburban infrastructure. Prehistoric humans relied heavily on animal fat and organ meats for nutrition since grains were scarce. When grains became available after the agricultural revolution, it introduced dietary changes but the long-term health impacts are still debated today.

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    Discuss man's transition in diets as this country has progressed from from an

    agricultural economy to a technological economy.

    The industrial economy replaced the agricultural economy, leading the population to
    move from rural locations into urban centers. At the same time, motorization was causing
    cities to expand because motorized transportation could not support the population
    density that the existing mass transit systems could. Suburbs provided a reasonable
    compromise between population density and access to a wide variety of employment,
    goods, and services that were available in the more densely populated urban centers.
    Further, suburban infrastructure could be built quickly, supporting a rapid transition from
    a rural/agricultural economy to an industrial/urban economy.American Indians of central
    Brazil, called, the Kayapo are a modern version of hunter gatherer people. With chickens,
    crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, sweet manioc and yams and a hunting lifestyle they
    represent a transition from a hunter-gathering lifestyle to an agricultural lifestyle. What
    they caught by hunting, be it a tortoise, deer, fish or a wild pig, they had to share and they
    discouraged selfishness. Women worked in groups to gather fruit, nuts and plants from
    the same forest where the men hunt. Ironically, on finding a high fruit tree, they cut it
    down with a metal axe to harvest the ripe fruit. This behaviour shows both ignorance and
    little reverence for the forest they protect and own. Not long ago these people would not
    have possessed metal tools, so this destruction of their own forest is the result of a
    technological advance that has not been properly or rationally incorporated into their
    culture. The result of this introduction of a simple technological innovation reflects much
    on human nature and how we adapt
    Discuss why a high fat diet worked for prehistoric man since grains were not availabe.
    When grains did become available, what was the dietary change and was it good or bad.
    But the truth is that among prehistoric human cultures, both the fat and high cholesterol
    liver were highly prized parts of animals they hunted. They ate the liver raw soon after
    the kill. And they removed every last bit of fat from the animal and rationed it, adding it
    to all meals, even meals of vegetable origin. Unlike most people in modern America, they
    knew the value of animal fat and the important role it played in human nutrition. The
    leanest cuts of meat became food for their dogs.
    Scientific interest in the evolution of human nutritional requirements has a long history.
    But relevant investigations started gaining momentum after 1985, when S. Boyd Eaton
    and Melvin J. Konner of Emory University published a seminal paper in the New
    England Journal of Medicine entitled "Paleolithic Nutrition." They argued that the
    prevalence in modern societies of many chronic diseases--obesity, hypertension, coronary
    heart disease and diabetes, among them--is the consequence of a mismatch between
    modern dietary patterns and the type of diet that our species evolved to eat as prehistoric
    hunter-gatherers. Since then, however, understanding of the evolution of human
    nutritional needs has advanced considerably-- thanks in large part to new comparative
    analyses of traditionally living human populations and other primates--and a more
    nuanced picture has emerged. We now know that humans have evolved not to subsist on a
    single, Paleolithic diet but to be flexible eaters, an insight that has important implications
    for the current debate over what people today should eat in order to be healthy.

    Tanny McNamara

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