Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom - Paperback
Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom - Paperback
by Fred Provenza (Author)
"Nourishment will change the way you eat and the way you think."--Mark Schatzker, author of The Dorito Effect
"[Provenza is] a wise observer of the land and the animals [and] becomes transformed to learn the meaning of life."--Temple Grandin
Reflections on feeding body and spirit in a world of change
- What kinds of memories form the basis for how herbivores, and humans, recognize foods?
- Can a body develop nutritional and medicinal memories in utero and early in life?
- Do humans still possess the wisdom to select nourishing diets or has that ability been hijacked by nutritional "authorities"?
- Is taking supplements and enriching and fortifying foods helping us, or is it hurting us?
On a broader scale Provenza explores the relationships among facets of complex, poorly understood, ever-changing ecological, social, and economic systems in light of an unpredictable future.
- To what degree do we lose contact with life-sustaining energies when the foods we eat come from anywhere but where we live?
- To what degree do we lose the mythological relationship that links us physically and spiritually with Mother Earth who nurtures our lives?
"Nourishment is a conversation between science, culture, and a greater spiritual or cosmological umbrella."--Montana Public Radio
Author Biography
Fred Provenza is professor emeritus of Behavioral Ecology in the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University. At Utah State Provenza directed an award-winning research group that pioneered an understanding of how learning influences foraging behavior and how behavior links soils and plants with herbivores and humans. Provenza is one of the founders of BEHAVE, an international network of scientists and land managers committed to integrating behavioral principles with local knowledge to enhance environmental, economic, and cultural values of rural and urban communities. He is also the author of Foraging Behavior and the co-author of The Art & Science of Shepherding.