Nutrition psychology #4. What is the future for sustainable food? The case for prospective thinking (UH)
Food is any substance consumed that provides energy and nutrition to our body and brain, and thus influences human development over a lifespan and over generations. Our ancestors started to consume bone marrow 3.5 Mya. This new 'diet' triggered a reduction of their guts and an expansion of their brains, giving room for new mental faculties. After the introduction of the Epipaleolithic, they baked the first bread and brewed the first beer. After the introduction of the Holocene, the agricultural revolution took place. During the Enlightenment, Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg proposed a vegan diet in preparation for the second coming of Jesus. He was followed by Sylvester Graham and the Seventh Day Adventist church. In the 1950s John Yudkin warned about the negative consequences of eating sugar and carbs. He was outmaneuvered by Ancel Keys who proposed the diet-heart hypothesis, which evolved to the Eat well plate. The result: welfare diseases, including mental issues spread...