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Being Green Every Day

NBC / Universal had what they called “Green Week” all last week. What this meant was that most of their new original programming had some kind of content related to reminding you to doing more things for the environment. It was nice, but shouldn’t every week be green week?

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Yesterday's Food Will Become Tomorrow's Food

by Dr. David Ryde MB BS FRCP

Summary
The author speculates that Ancestral Man of 3 – 5 million years ago was a herbivore and an opportunist carnivore; man might also have been a coprophagist. Due to extensive regional climatic changes our ancestor totally adapted to the role of gatherer-hunter in order to survive and the use of fire later helped him in this adaptation. It is suggested that nutritional and alimentary diseases and degenerative changes – afflict meat eaters more than vegetarians. Reasons are given for what the author considers to be the human food niche, and these are used to justify a decrease in the consumption of meat and dairy produce. Palaeoanthropological studies support the National Advisory Council for Nutrition Education Consultative Report, better known as “NANCNE Report.”

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