Anthropology of Food--University of Minnesota Duluth

Diets
including diet types . . .

for dieting, "What to Eat?" . . . see nutrition

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Diet (nutrition)
Diet food
Cuisine
List of diets
Category: Diets

Be careful not to confuse the term diet, as "the actual foods that individuals or groups consume to meet their nutrient needs" (The Cultural Feast, 2^nd Ed., p. 9) with the term diet as referring to a set regimen of food intake [as in "the Atkin’s diet"].

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In the News . . .

Native American Ancestors' Diet Part of Study and Challenge -- ScienceDaily (23 October 2012)
Science on the Silk Road: Taste for Adventure -- Nature (15 August 2012)

podcast

Book Promotes ‘Paleo’ Eating Plan Based on Diets Before Processed Foods -- Washington Post (06 August 2012)
An 'All Natural' Diet? There's No Such Thing -- EurekAlert (07 June 2011)

diet classifications / types

insectivorous (insects)
frugiverous (fruit)
herbiverous (plants)
gramnivorous (grasses)
carnivorous (meat)
omnivorous (all of the above)

other terms

scavaging
meat eating / hunting

British Food Standards Agency - Eatwell
British Nutrition Foundation
Diets -- MedlinePlus
Parasecoli, Fabio. Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2008.
Origins and Evolution of Human Diet -- Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
U S Food and Drug Administration
- Food

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