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Cooking --- Food habits --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- Cookery --- Cuisine --- Food preparation --- Food science --- Home economics --- Cookbooks --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- History. --- Southern States --- Antiquities.

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Edible Insects and Human Evolution investigates insects in the human diet from an evolutionary perspective. This book argues that insects were just as important as meat in the past and that today they offer a sustainable alternative to meat.

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This clear-sighted volume synthesizes wide-ranging knowledge of human food consumption, food production systems, and sustainability to offer methods of improving the impact of food choices on people and the environment. The comprehensive coverage addresses myriad challenges and paradoxes (e.g., health-conscious food choices that put greater stress on the planet, hunger amidst plenty) associated with the production of sustainable, nutritious food. Direct and complex links between local and global issues are highlighted in innovative approaches to transforming food production from the farm to the table and from the policy desk to the real world. Chapters identify, examine, and offer realistic recommendations for achieving critical goals, among them: Supporting healthy people and communities within planetary boundaries Reduction and prevention of food waste Combining health and sustainability on the plate “Serving sustainable and healthy food to consumers and decision makers”: from commitment to action. Investing in healthier and more sustainable production. Ensuring a healthy sustainable diet is a goal of all public policies. Towards Healthy and Sustainable Diets is geared toward professionals and policymakers dealing with food, nutrition, and environmental topics seeking new perspectives on longstanding issues in these interrelated areas. It also makes a suitable reference for students studying and conducting research in these areas.

Health promotion. --- Food habits. --- Medicine. --- Clinical nutrition. --- Environmental health. --- Sustainable development. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. --- Sustainable Development. --- Environmental Health. --- Clinical Nutrition. --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Eating --- Food customs --- Foodways --- Human beings --- Habit --- Manners and customs --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Oral habits --- Food habits --- Environmental Medicine. --- Personal health and hygiene. --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Environmental aspects --- Health Workforce --- Clinical nutrition --- Diet and disease --- Dietotherapy --- Food --- Medical nutrition therapy --- MNT (Medical nutrition therapy) --- Nutrition therapy --- Dietetics --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- Environmental quality --- Health --- Health ecology --- Public health --- Environmental engineering --- Health risk assessment --- Therapeutic use --- Health aspects