Food - History
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Gourd and squash artifacts yield starch grains of feasting foods from preceramic Peru.

22 Jul 2009 In a study of residues from gourd and squash artifacts, we recovered starch grains from manioc (Manihot esculenta), potato (Solanum sp.), chili pepper (Capsicum spp.), arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea), and algarrobo (Prosopis sp.) from feasting ... Read more...

Measuring food environments: a historical perspective.

30 Mar 2009 Food and nutrition environments are believed to contribute to obesity and chronic diseases. There is a need for valid, reliable measures of nutrition environments. Familiarity with previous efforts to measure food and nutrition environments can help ... Read more...

Exogenous determinants of early-life conditions, and mortality later in life.

7 Mar 2009 We analyze causal effects of conditions early in life on the individual mortality rate later in life. Conditions early in life are captured by transitory features of the macro-environment around birth, notably the state of the business cycle around ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Food - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Gourd and squash artifacts yield starch grains of feasting foods from preceramic Peru. 22 Jul 2009
• [In blessed times of good hospitable broths] 20 Apr 2009
• Measuring food environments: a historical perspective. 30 Mar 2009
• Exogenous determinants of early-life conditions, and mortality later in life. 7 Mar 2009
• Seated at the Sabbath table with Rashi and Rambam. 27 Feb 2009
• 10 years of Functional Foods in Europe. 29 Nov 2008
• An unsuitable and degraded diet? Part two: realities of the mid-Victorian diet. 29 Jun 2008
• Food, drugs, and droods: a historical consideration of definitions and categories in American food and drug law. 29 Jun 2008
• An unsuitable and degraded diet? Part one: public health lessons from the mid-Victorian working class diet. 30 May 2008
• Food consumption, a health risk? Norms and medical practice in the Middle Ages. 13 Feb 2008
• Correspondence of Charles Darwin on James Torbitt's project to breed blight-resistance potatoes. 30 Dec 2007
• "Be receptive to the good earth": health, nature, and labor in countercultural back-to-the-land settlements. 30 Dec 2007
• [Historical consideration of tea trees and tea flowers, especially regarding the use of tea flowers as food] 30 Dec 2007
• [Sociocultural transformations in hospital food] 29 Sep 2007
• Role of wild plant foods among late Holocene hunter-gatherers from Central and North Patagonia (South America): an approach from dental evidence. 30 Jul 2007
• We're living on corn! 26 Jun 2007
• The foreign policy of the calorie. 30 Mar 2007
• Feeding the city: food consumption and flow of nitrogen, Paris, 1801-1914. 28 Jan 2007
• Vegetable love: the history of vegetarianism. 20 Jan 2007
• A history of obesity, or how what was good became ugly and then bad. 29 Sep 2006

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Technical information about 'Food'

Definition: Any substances taken in by the body that provide nourishment.

Descriptor UI: D005502

Alternative terms: Food; Foods; Nutrients;

Related Mesh Headings: Diet; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Nutritional Requirements; Plants, Edible;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; radiation effects; standards; toxicity; utilization; statistics & numerical data; virology;

Tree Number: J02.500;

Technical Notes: /adv eff = probably FOOD HYPERSENSITIVITY or FOOD POISONING; /rad eff = probably FOOD IRRADIATION or FOOD CONTAMINATION, RADIOACTIVE; Manual 31.5-31.12; food consumption = FOOD or EATING or FOOD SUPPLY; food for animals = ANIMAL FEED; refeeding after starvation goes here; microbes found in food: consider FOOD MICROBIOLOGY (IM) + specific microbe (IM); parasites found in food: consider FOOD PARASITOLOGY (IM) + specific parasite (IM); differentiation from DIET & NUTRITION: see note under NUTRITION & Manual 31.5