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ARTICLES
Aiello, Leslie C. and Peter Wheeler, "The Expensive Tissue Hypothesis: The Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution." Current Anthropology vol. 36, #2 (April 1995) 199-221. (Analyzes human gut morphology and how eating meat made us smart.)
Ames, B.N., "Ranking Possible Carcinogenic Hazards" Science 236 (April 17, 1987) 271-80.
Ames, B.N., "Paleolithic Diet, Evolution and Carcinogens", Science 238 (Dec. 18, 1987) 1633-34.
Ames, B.N., "Carcinogenic Risk Estimation" Science 240 (May 20, 1988) 1043-47. (Series of articles by one of the leading authorities on the causes of cancer. Ames shows how common foods may pose a greater threat of cancer than some of the chemicals often labeled carcinogenic.)
Atkinson, Mark A., Noel K. Maclaren, "What Causes Diabetes?" Scientific American (July 1990) 62-71.
Bishop, Jerry E., "More Fatty Foods Are Backed in Test of Diabetic Diets." Wall Street Journal (May 11, 1994).
Boehmer, Harald von, Pawel Kisielow, "How the Immune System Learns about Self." Scientific American (Oct. 1991) 74-81.
Bower, B., "The 2-million-year-old meat and marrow diet resurfaces." Science News (Jan. 3, 1987) 7.
Bryant, Vaughn, "I Put Myself on a Caveman Diet- Permanently." Prevention Vol. 31 No. 9 (1979) 128-137.
_____, "Eating Right Is an Ancient Rite." Natural Science (Jan. 1995) 216-221.
_____, "Prehistoric Diets." University Lecture Series, Texas A &M University (Nov. 28, 1979).
_____, "The Paleolithic Health Club." 1995 Yearbook of Science and the Future (1994) published by Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago. 114-133.
(Vaughn Bryant is the head of the Department of Anthropology at Texas A & M University and is also a professor of biochemistry.)
Cerami, Anthony, Helen Vlassara and Michael Brownlee, "Glucose and Aging." Scientific American (May 1987) 90-96.
Centofanti, M., "Diabetes complications: More than sugar?" Science News Vol. 148 (Dec. 23 & 30, 1995) 421.
Cohen, Leonard A., "Diet and Cancer." Scientific American (Nov. 1987) 42-48.
Diamond, Jared, "THE WORST MISTAKE IN THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN RACE." Discover (May 1987) 64-66. (Explains how the invention of agriculture caused war, disease, oppression and the income tax..)
Diamond, Jared, "THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD." Discover (May 1989) 50-60. (Describes the Neolithic Revolution.)
Dolnick, Edward, "Beyond the French paradox." Health (October 1992) 40. (Explains how the French have a high-fat diet and have very little heart disease.)
Dunbar, Robin, "Foraging for nature's balanced diet; finding the link between diet and longevity among human and animal groups." Focus (Aug. 31, 1991) 25-?
Eaton, S. B., Melvin Konner, "PALEOLITHIC NUTRITION: A Consideration of Its Nature and Current Implications." The New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 312 No. 5 (Jan. 31, 1985) 283-289. (MUST READ!!!)
Frisch, Rose E., "Fatness and Fertility." Scientific American (March 1988) 88-95.
Garg, Abhimanyu, M.B.B.S., M.D. et al, "Effects of Varying Carbohydrate Content of Diet in Patients With Non-Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus." Journal of the American Medical Association vol. 271, #18 (May 11, 1994) 1421-1428. (Shows how a low-fat diet caused a rapid increase in LDL-cholesterol levels in insulin-resistant--i.e., overweight--patients.)
Henry, Linda, "Wild Side: Bodybuilders advance to primitive protein for lean muscularity." Muscle & Fitness (March 1994) 85...
Hopkins, Susan, "Eating the caveman's high-fiber diet can be healthy." The Battalion Vol. 74 No. 179 (Thursday, July 23, 1981) 1.
Johnson, Mary Ann, "The Georgia Centenarian Study: Nutritional Patterns of Centenarians." The International Journal of Aging & Human Development Vol. 34(1) (1992) 57-76. (Explains that hundred-year-olds typically eat high-fat diets.)
Krajick, Kevin, "Waiter, There's a Fly in My Soup, and I Ordered the Cricket Salad." Newsweek (Sept. 20, 1993) 59E.
Larkin, Marilynn, "CAVE CUISINE." Health (Nov. 1985) 37-38.
Leonard, Wm. R., Marcia L. Robertson, "Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Nutrition: The Influence of Brain and Body Size on Diet and Metabolism." American Journal of Human Biology Vol. 6 (1994) 77-88. (Similar to Aiello's "Expensive Tissue Hypothesis...")
Lieb, Clarence W., M.D., "The Effects on Human Beings of a Twelve Months' Exclusive Meat Diet." Journal of the American Medical Association (July 6, 1929) 20-22. (Stefansson's famous year-long experiment with an all-meat diet at Bellview Hospital in New York.)
Lowenstein, Jerold M., "Who ate what when." Oceans (June 1988) 72.
McKie, Robin, "Meaty evidence: Steak made humans smart." (quotes Current Anthropology journal) London Observer Service ( Jan. 14, 1995).
Mead, Nathaniel, "Don't Drink Your Milk!" Natural Health (July/August 1994) 70-73, 112.
Milton, Katharine, "Diet and Primate Evolution." Scientific American (August 1993) 86-93.
Molleson, Theya, "The Eloquent Bones of Abu Hureyra." Scientific American (Aug. 1994) 70-75.
O'Dea, Kerin, Ph.D. et al, "Impaired Glucose Tolerance, Hyperinsulinemia and Hypertriglyceridemia in Australian Aborigines from the Desert." Diabetes Care Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan. 1988) pp. 23-29. (Compares effects of urban life and hunter-gathering on Australian Aborigines.)
Raloff, J., "Obesity, diet linked to deadly cancers." Science News Vol. 147 No. 3 (Jan. 21, 1995) 39.
_____ "High-fat diets help athletes perform." Science News Vol. 149 (May 4, 1996) 287.
Rennie, John, "THE BODY AGAINST ITSELF." Scientific American (Dec. 1990) 107-15.
Richardson, Sarah, "MEDICINE WATCH: A One-Two to the Brain." Discover (Nov. 1994) 36-37.
Roach, Mary, "Advice from the World's Biggest Weight Experts: Their Gain Can Be Your Loss." Health (March/April 1993) 62-72. (Describes the traditional, low-fat diet of Japanese sumo wrestlers.)
Rosenberg, Steven A., "Adoptive Immunotherapy for Cancer." Scientific American (May 1990) 62- 69. Scientific American, Special Issue: "Life, Death and the Immune System." (Sept. 1993) entire issue.
Scrimshaw, Nevin S., "Iron Deficiency." Scientific American (Oct., 1991) 46-52. (Explains how vegetarian diets lead to anemia, lethargy and reduced IQ in children.)
Serra-Majem, Lluis et al, "How could changes in diet explain changes in coronary heart disease mortality in Spain? The Spanish paradox." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1995) 1351S-9S.
Shaper, A. G. et al, "Cardiovascular studies in the Samburu tribe of Northern Kenya." American Heart Journal Vol. 63 No. 4 (April 1962) 437-442.
Shepard, Paul, "A Post-Historic Primitivism." For "The Wilderness Condition: Realia Conference on Environment and Civilization" Estes Park, CO (August 17-23, 1989). (Hunter-gatherer philosophy for the modern man.)
Speth, John D., "Early Hominid Hunting and Scavenging: The Role of Meat as an Energy Source." Journal of Human Evolution Vol. 18 (1989) 329-343. (Attempts to calculate the amount of meat and fat required for hominid survival.)
Stahl, Ann Brower, "Hominid Dietary Selection Before Fire." Current Anthropology Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 1984) 151-68. (Explains the constraints on human diet without fire.)
Stipp, David, "The Way We Were: Our Prehistoric Past Casts Ills in New Light, Some Scientists Say." The Wall Street Journal (Wednesday, May 24, 1995) 1 & A6, Col. 1.
United Press International, "Anthropologist: Eat like a caveman and live to 100." The San Diego Union (Saturday, Oct. 14, 1989) C-6.
Wallis, Michael, "ANTHROPOLOGIST VAUGHN BRYANT LOST 30 POUNDS (BUT NOT HIS EALTH) EATING WHAT THE CAVE DWELLERS ATE." People (Feb. 19, 1979) 103-4.
Washington, Harriet, "The back to the future diet; healthy diet habits of traditional cultures." Harvard Health Letter (June 1994) 6.
Wurtman, Richard J. and Judith J., "Carbohydrates and Depression." Scientific American (Jan. 1989) 68-75. (Explains the role of complex carbohydrates in mood swings.)
Zane, Frank, Bodybuilding Advisory: Train with Zane "Eating for muscular definition." Muscle & Fitness (Dec. 1994) 226.
Zvelebil, Marek, "Postglacial Foraging in the Forests of Europe." Scientific American (May 1986) 104115. (Documents the Neolithic Revolution in Europe.)
BOOKS
Ardrey, Robert, African Genesis. New York: Antheneum, 1961.
Ardrey, Robert, The Hunting Hypothesis. New York: Atheneum, 1976.
Atkins, Robert C., Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution. New York: Bantam Books, 1972.
Atkins, Robert C., Dr. Atkins' Super-Energy Diet. New York: Bantam Books, 1977.
Bruce, Scott and Bill Crawford, Cerealizing America: The Unsweetened Story of American Breakfast Cereal. Boston & London: Faber and Faber, 1995. (Details the history of breakfast cereal in America with a brilliant section on the history of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg as told in the feature film The Road to Wellville.)
Bryant, Vaughn, "The Paleolithic Health Club." 1995 Yearbook of Science and the Future. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. (1994) 114-133.
Budiansky, Stephen, The Covenant of the Wild: Why Animals Chose Domestication. New York: William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1992. (Explains the role of neoteny in the Neolithic Revolution and how it was as much a biological as a technological revolution.)
Campbell, Ada Marie, Marjorie Porter Penfield and Ruth M. Griswold, The Experimental Study of Food. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979.
Chatwin, Bruce, The Songlines. New York: Viking, 1987. (Talks about the religion of Australian Aborigines in particular and hunter-gathering in general.)
Cohen, Mark Nathan, The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. (How environmental changes led man to seek new food sources.)
______, Health and the Rise of Civilization.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. (How man's new food sources produced new diseases.)
Corballis, Michael L., The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. (Talks about how the difference in left- and right-brain size affected the evolution of human behavior.)
Crawford, Michael and Sheilagh, What We Eat Today: The Food Manipulators vs. the People. New York: Stein & Day, 1972.
Desowitz, Robert S., New Guinea Tape Worms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People. New York, Avon Books, 1981
Diamond, Jared, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.
DiPasquale, Dr. Mauro, The Anabolic Diet. Optimum Training Systems, 1995. (Low-carbohydrate diet used by bodybuilders and professional wrestlers.)
Eades, Michael R., M.D., Thin So Fast. New York, New York: Warner Books, 1989.
Eades, Michael R., M.D. and Mary Dan, M.D., Protein Power. New York: Bantam, 1995. (Highly recommended. Explains how low-carbohydrate diets work focusing especially on insulin resistance. Excellent chapters on ancient diet and cholesterol metabolism.)
Eaton, S. Boyd, Marjorie Shostak and Melvin Konner, The Paleolithic Prescription. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. (Arose from the landmark 1985 article in The New England Journal of Medicine. Constitutes a very conservative approach to Paleolithic Nutrition.)
Farb, Peter and George Armelagos, Consuming assions: The Anthropology of Eating. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1980.
Fieldhouse, Paul, Food & Nutrition: Customs & Culture. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
Gare, Fran and Helen Monica, Dr. Atkins' Diet Cookbook. New York: Bantam Books, 1974.
Gasset, Jose Ortega y, Meditations on Hunting. New York: Charles Scribner Sons, 1972. (Modern ruminations on hunter-gatherer philosophy.)
Harris, Marvin and Eric B. Ross, FOOD and Evolution. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
Harris, Marvin, Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures. New York: Random House, 1977. (The story of how the needs of crop species forced man to become civilized.)
Harris, Marvin, Good to Eat: Riddles of Food & Culture. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
Hunter, Beatrice Trum, The Great Nutrition Robbery. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978.
Lee, Richard B. and Irven Devore, Man the Hunter. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1968.
Oelschlager, Max, The Idea of Wilderness. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991.(How our agricultural view of nature affects the environment.)
Sauer, Carl O., Seeds, Spades, Hearths & Herds: The Domestication of Animals and Foodstuffs. 2nd ed., Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1969.
Sieden, Lloyd Steven, Buckminster Fuller's Universe: An Appreciation. New York & London: Plenum Press, 1989, 367-68.
Shepard, Paul, The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1973. (A manifesto concerning how agriculture and neoteny conspire to ppress humans and destroy the environment.)
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, Cancer: Disease of Civilization. New York: Hill and Wang, 1960. (Documents the unsuccessful search for cancer and other autoimmune disorders among hunter-gatherers.)
_____, Hunters of the Great North. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922.
_____, The Fat of the Land (originally, Not By Bread Alone, 1946). New York: Macmillan, 1956. (The definitive, and only, book on pemmican.)
Tannahill, Reay, Food In History. New York: Stein & Day, 1973. (Talks about the origins of the foods we eat today.)
Winterhalder, Bruce and Eric Alden Smith, unter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies: Ethnographic and Archeological Analyses.Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1981.
Wright, Robert, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Pantheon Books, 994. (Discusses how our hunting and gathering instincts are the evolutionary basis of our morality.).
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