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Eating and Healing - Traditional Food As Medicine (Hardcover)
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Eating and Healing - Traditional Food As Medicine (Hardcover)
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Discover neglected wild food sourcesthat can also be used as
medicine! The long-standing notion of food as medicine, medicine as
food, can be traced back to Hippocrates. Eating and Healing:
Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and
semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional
societies. Important cultural information, along with extensive
case studies, provides a clear, authoritative look at the many
neglected food sources still being used around the world today.
This book bridges the scientific disciplines of medicine, food
science, human ecology, and environmental sciences with their
ethno-scientific counterparts of ethnobotany, ethnoecology, and
ethnomedicine to provide a valuable multidisciplinary resource for
education and instruction. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As
Medicine presents respected researchers' in-depth case studies on
foods different cultures use as medicines and as remedies for
nutritional deficiencies in diet. Comparisons of living conditions
in different geographic areas as well as differences in diet and
medicines are thoroughly discussed and empirically evaluated to
provide scientific evidence of the many uses of these traditional
foods as medicine and as functional foods. The case studies focus
on the uses of plants, seaweed, mushrooms, and fish within their
cultural contexts while showing the dietary and medical importance
of these foods. The book provides comprehensive tables, extensive
references, useful photographs, and helpful illustrations to
provide clear scientific support as well as opportunities for
further thought and study. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As
Medicine explores the ethnobiology of: Tibetantioxidants as
mediators of high-altitude nutritional physiology Northeast
Thailandwild food plant gathering Southern Italythe consumption of
wild plants by Albanians and Italians Northern Spainmedicinal
digestive beverages United Statesmedicinal herb quality
Commonwealth of Dominicahumoral medicine and food Cubapromoting
health through medicinal foods Brazilmedicinal uses of specific
fishes Brazilplants from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest Bolivian
Andestraditional food medicines New Patagoniagathering of wild
plant foods with medicinal uses Western Kenyauses of traditional
herbs among the Luo people South Cameroonethnomycology in Africa
Moroccofood medicine and ethnopharmacology Eating and Healing:
Traditional Food As Medicine is an essential research guide and
educational text about food and medicine in traditional societies
for educators, students from undergraduate through graduate levels,
botanists, and research specialists in nutrition and food science,
anthropology, agriculture, ethnoecology, ethnobotany, and
ethnobiology.
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