THE 'NATURAL', OR EVOLUTIONARILY APPROPRIATE DIET
Evolution of the human diet

• List of books and papers for further reading
• Review of 'The Primal Feast', by Susan Allport

• 'Natural' food in commerce defined
• Trends in Natural Food consumption
• 'Fast' Natural Food

• THE EVOLUTIONARILY APPROPRIATE DIET-CONSTITUENTS
• Animal flesh
• Animals as a food source during human evolution
• Animals and their body parts that that are commercially available & Western people culturally choose to eat
• Meat tenderness
• Nuts and other tree seeds
• Nuts and other tree seeds as a food source during human evolution
• African manketti nut
• Nuts that are commercially available and Western people culturally choose to eat
• Grains, legumes and other seeds of annual plants
• Grains, legumes, and other annual seeding plants as a food source during human evolution
• Fruit
• Fruit as a food source during human evolution
• African Mbungu fruit
• Fruits that are now commercially available and their nutritional properties
• Vitamin C content of 50 fruit
• Vitamin C content of kiwifruit species and varieties
• Vitamin C content of apple varieties
• Vegetables
• Vegetables as a food source during human evolution
• Shellfish, fish, and other aquatic animals
• Aquatic animals as a food source during human evolution

• THE EVOLUTIONARILY APPROPRIATE DIET-SAFETY
• Contamination - micro-organisms
• Contamination - pesticides
• Contamination - chemicals
• Contamination - heavy metals
• Contamination - plant toxins
• Contamination - radioactive fallout
• Contamination - irradiation hazardous products
• The safety of irradiated food
• Contamination - genetic engineering hazardous products

• THE EVOLUTIONARILY APPROPRIATE DIET-SECURITY
• Overview-all factors affecting the security of the Wests food supply
• Population Growth
• Climate change
• Loss of cultivable land
• Loss of the germplasm of edible plants and animals
• Over hunted fisheries
• Decreasing water supply
• End of oil reserves
• Alternative energy resources to replace oil

HUMAN DIET, COMMENTARY & LINKS
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GROWING YOUR OWN INGREDIENTS

• GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD-PLANTS
• Growing vegetables
• Vegetables indexed from A-Z
• garlic varieties & culture
• lettuce varieties
• potato varieties
• sweet pepper/capsicum varieties
• tomato varieties
• Vegetable gardening in Spring
• Vegetable gardening in Summer
• Vegetable gardening in Autumn
• Vegetable gardening in Winter
• Weed control
• Pest control, natural
• Growing fruit
• Fruit indexed from A-Z
• apple culture
• apple varieties
• banana culture
• banana culture in New Zealand
• pear varieties
• pear varieties in New Zealand
• plum varieties
• plum varieties in New Zealand
• mandarin/tangerine varieties
• mandarin varieties in New Zealand
• tamarillo varieties
• Fruit in the temperate zone
• Fruit in the warm temperate zone
• Fruit in the subtropical zone
• Fruit in the tropical zone
• Weed control - larger home orchards, warm temperate zone, grazing, pasture management
• growing nuts
• Nuts indexed from A-Z
• walnut cultivars
• Nuts in the temperate zone
• Nuts in the warm temperate zone
• Macadamia culture in New Zealand
• Commercial macadamia cultivars in New Zealand
• Home garden macadamia varieties in New Zealand
• Pistachio culture in New Zealand
• Nuts in the subtropical zone
• Nuts in the tropical zone
• GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD-ANIMALS
• Growing cattle
• Small cattle breeds
• Meat tenderness
• Growing sheep
• Links
• Growing rabbits
• Links
• Growing quail
• Links
• Growing poultry
• Growing goats
• Links
• Growing ostrich/emu/rhea
• Links

• BUYING PLANT FOOD
  
• Buying vegetables
• Vegetables indexed from A-Z
• Buying fruit
• Fruit indexed from A-Z
• apple varieties
• banana varieties
• banana varieties available in New Zealand
• pear varieties
• pear varieties available in New Zealand
• plum varieties
• plum varieties available in New Zealand
• mandarin/tangerine varieties
• mandarin varieties available in New Zealand
• tamarillo varieties
• Buying nuts
• Nuts indexed from A-Z
• almond varities
• chestnut varieties
  
• hazelnut varieties
  
• walnut varieties
• Buying Seeds
• Seeds indexed from A-Z
  
• BUYING ANIMAL FOOD
  
• Buying beef
• Meat tenderness
• Buying sheepmeat
• Buying rabbit meat
  
• Buying quail
• Buying poultry
• Buying goat meat
  
• Buying ostrich/emu meat
  

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