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Nourishment - What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom (Paperback)
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Nourishment - What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom (Paperback)
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"Nourishment will change the way you eat and the way you
think."-Mark Schatzker, author of The Dorito Effect "[Provenza is]
a wise observer of the land and the animals [and] becomes
transformed to learn the meaning of life."-Temple Grandin
Reflections on feeding body and spirit in a world of change Animal
scientists have long considered domestic livestock to be too dumb
to know how to eat right, but the lifetime research of animal
behaviorist Fred Provenza and his colleagues has debunked this
myth. Their work shows that when given a choice of natural foods,
livestock have an astoundingly refined palate, nibbling through the
day on as many as fifty kinds of grasses, forbs, and shrubs to meet
their nutritional needs with remarkable precision. In Nourishment
Provenza presents his thesis of the wisdom body, a wisdom that
links flavor-feedback relationships at a cellular level with
biochemically rich foods to meet the body's nutritional and
medicinal needs. Provenza explores the fascinating complexity of
these relationships as he raises and answers thought-provoking
questions about what we can learn from animals about nutritional
wisdom. What kinds of memories form the basis for how herbivores,
and humans, recognize foods? Can a body develop nutritional and
medicinal memories in utero and early in life? Do humans still
possess the wisdom to select nourishing diets or has that ability
been hijacked by nutritional "authorities"? Is taking supplements
and enriching and fortifying foods helping us, or is it hurting us?
On a broader scale Provenza explores the relationships among facets
of complex, poorly understood, ever-changing ecological, social,
and economic systems in light of an unpredictable future. To what
degree do we lose contact with life-sustaining energies when the
foods we eat come from anywhere but where we live? To what degree
do we lose the mythological relationship that links us physically
and spiritually with Mother Earth who nurtures our lives?
Provenza's paradigm-changing exploration of these questions has
implications that could vastly improve our health through a simple
change in the way we view our relationships with the plants and
animals we eat. "Nourishment is a conversation between science,
culture, and a greater spiritual or cosmological umbrella."-Montana
Public Radio
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