(image: Elephant Seal, California- Anne-Marie, 2009)
Word: Pandemic (adj.)- (of a disease) spread over a whole country or world.
Term: Epidemic (noun)- a sudden widespread of an occurrence of a particular undesirable phenomenon
Book: Hungry Planet- (Married Couple) Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio
“As societies around the world grow more affluent, their members are eat more sugar, more refined carbohydrates, more dietary fats. Nutritionalists disagree on the effects of each one, but most believe that the collective impact of this transition is disastrous- producing a global onslaught of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease”(pg 245, Hungry Planet).
“Treating food, plant or animal, which high heat changes it, simplifies it so to speak, so our teeth and gut can deal with it more effectively. In general it transforms organic matter that, when raw, is unpleasant to eat, difficult or impossible to digest, and unhealthy or even deadly into nourishing food. On average chimps spend six hours a day chewing and people (that is to say, members of the cooking species) only one” (52, Essay by Alfred W. Crosby, Hungry Planet).
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