Nourishment : what animals can teach us about rediscovering our nutritional wisdom
Provenza, Frederick D.2018
Books, Manuscripts
Animal scientists have long considered domestic livestock to be too dumb to know how to eat right, but the lifetime research of animal behaviourist 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 flavour-feedback relationships at a cellular level with biochemically rich foods to meet the body's nutritional and medicinal needs. He 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.
Main title:
Author:
Provenza, Frederick D., author
Imprint:
White River Junction : Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018.
Collation:
416 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781603588027 (pbk)
Dewey class:
613.2
LC class:
QP141
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2434380