I will use this thread to post citations from new reports or studies that support points I've made in the past about understanding nutrition as a science. I'll start with two recent ones:
QUOTE: "We are confusing ourselves and the public by talking so much
about nutrients when we should be talking about foods," said David
Jacobs, Ph.D., the principal investigator and Mayo Professor of Public
Health at the University of Minnesota. "Consumers get the idea that
diet and health can be understood in terms of isolated nutrients. It's
not the best approach, and it might be wrong..." UNQUOTE.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071106133101.htm
And:
QUOTE: To think that world domination could have begun in the cheeks. That's one interpretation of a discovery, published online September 9 in Nature Genetics, which indicates that humans carry extra copies of the salivary amylase gene...
For years, the answer was thought to be the growing importance of meat in the diet, as early humans learned to hunt. But, Dominy pointed out, "Even when you look at modern human hunter-gatherers, meat is a relatively small fraction of their diet. They cooperate with language, use nets; they have poisoned arrows, even, and still it's not that easy to hunt meat. To think that, two to four million years ago, a small-brained, awkwardly bipedal animal could efficiently acquire meat, even by scavenging, just doesn't make a whole lot of sense."
Some anthropologists have begun to suspect the new source of food consisted of starches, stored by plants in the form of underground tubers and bulbs--wild versions of modern-day foods like carrots, potatoes, and onions. Once early humans learned to recognize tuber-forming plants, they opened up a food source unknown to other apes.
"It's kind of a goldmine," Dominy said. "All you have to do is dig it up..." UNQUOTE.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070909184006.htm
Note that they did not talk about the availability of other sources of energy/calories that were abundant, such as coconuts, which contain MCTs. |
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