Nourishment By Fred Provenza-9781603588027

Nourishment : What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom By (author) Fred Provenza Paperback English Share 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 #39;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 #34;authorities #34;? 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. Product details Format Paperback | 416 pages Dimensions 153 x 229 x 26mm | 608g Publication date 26 Nov 2018 Publisher Chelsea Green Publishing Co Publication City/Country White River Junction, United States Language English Illustrations note Black-and-white illustrations throughout ISBN10 1603588027 ISBN13 9781603588027