{"product_id":"9781443431774","title":"100 Million Years of Food : What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e100 Million Years of Food\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Stephen Le\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the vein of Jared Diamond and Michael Pollan, a fascinating new exploration of what we eat and how we live, and the health consequences of denying our complicated evolutionary history with food\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Award, the Taste Canada Award and the Lane Anderson Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are few areas of modern life that offer as much contradictory information and prescriptive advice as the arena of diet and health: eat a lot of meat, abstain from meat; whole-grains are healthy, whole-grains are a disaster; get a lot of sunlight, sunlight causes skin cancer; and on and on it goes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCutting through the confusing mass of information to present the long view of our diet and its relationship to what we eat, Stephen Le takes readers on a historic and geographic tour of how cuisine has evolved in tandem with our particular environments, and how our ancestors took advantage of the resources available to them. Travelling the world to places as far-flung as Vietnam, Kenya, Nova Scotia and Iowa, Le visits people producing food using traditional methods as well as modern techniques, and looks at how our relationship to food has strayed from centuries of tradition to the mass-produced assembly lines dependent on chemicals we see so often today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003e100 Million Years of Food\u003c\/em\u003e, Stephen Le argues that our ancestral diets and lifestyles are the first line of defense in protecting our health; simple prescriptions like paleo or vegan diets highjack our biology and ignore evolution, resulting in the current explosion of chronic diseases and allergies. In this remarkably clear-cut and compelling book, readers are shown not just what to eat, but how their diet is shaped from the product of millions of years of evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e[\u003cem\u003e100 Million Years of Food\u003c\/em\u003e] could constitute a paradigm shift regarding how we view food.\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating journey that comes to a few salient conclusions: primarily that we’d all be a lot better off if we ate like our great-great-great grandparents.”\u003cbr\u003e“Entertaining and assiduously referenced. . . . What you don’t understand about food and diet could fill a book. Biological anthropologist Stephen Le did just that, and what he has to say will almost certainly throw into question everything you think you know about healthy eating.”\u003cbr\u003e“This deliciously entertaining book will help you to enjoy eating your food, to enjoy thinking about your food, and to stay healthy.”\u003cbr\u003e“The vastness, breadth, and ambitiousness of Stephen Le’s \u003cem\u003e100 Million Years of Food\u003c\/em\u003e makes it compelling and engaging.”\u003cbr\u003e“The book’s conclusions about what to eat and drink are common sense, but the journey Le takes to get us there is worth the cover price.”\u003cbr\u003e“Le mixes advice, personal anecdotes, and medical science in this fascinating food-for-thought narrative.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaste Canada Award, KOBO Emerging Writer Prize, Lane Anderson Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781443431774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41078610002126,"sku":"9781443431774","price":14.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9781443431774.jpg?v=1648783919","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781443431774","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}