Decolonizing the Diet
Author: Gideon Mailer
ISBN: 9781785271588
Publisher: Anthem Press
Year first published: 13 Sep 2019
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781785271588
Publisher: Anthem Press
Year first published: 13 Sep 2019
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback / softback
Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America, "Decolonizing the Diet" shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization and cultural destruction.