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SUIWECrINDEX Acceptance/rejection of foods, 183-85, 232; motives in, 186; psychological categories of, 18485 (table). See also Food preferences and avoidances Ache peoples: effect of modem missions on, 35052 ; food preferences and avoidances among, 910 ; foraging and food quantities needed by, 341, 342, 346-49; hunting as source of calories for, 11-12; influence of the market economy on, 14; optimal foraging of, 321, 585 Achuara peoples: influence of market economy on, 14-15; meat distribution among, 20; sources of calories and dietary breadth among, 11 Adaman Islanders, 209 Adaptations, food. See Biocultural adaptive model Adaptation to environment, 343-44 Adaptive inertia, 117-18, 121, 296, 581 Adrenarche, 146 Agribusiness, 455; and diet inequalities in the Third World, 463-66 Agncultural societIes: animal protein/fat in, 211; health of, vs. hunter-gatherers, 269-75. See also Horticultural societies Agricultural Trade Development Assistance Act, 430 Agriculture: and deforestation in Europe, 25-26; diet inequalities and the "green revolution" in, 466-69; intensive, 2-3, 576; modem, and profits, 40; shift from hunting-gathering to, 76, 263-79 Alaska, marine diet in, 285, 296 Aleut peoples, 234, 293 Amazonian peoples, 73, 573; food preferences and avoidances among, 9-10; and the market economy , 14-17. See also Machiguenga peoples; Yanomami peoples Amerindians, North American, 12, 211-12, 214, 216, 299,301 Amino acids, 163-64, 225, 226(table), 227, 588; complementary, 243-44, 580; human requirements of, 228(table); in marine foods, 291; and plant based diets, 243 Anadromous fish, 289, 294, 296, 299, 302 Andean higWands dietary patterns, 210, 481-83; changes in, 493-511; ENCA survey on, 493-502, 510-12; problems in study of, 483-84; traditional, 484-93 Anemia, 167, 169, 250, 270, 588. See also Favism; Hemolytic anemia; Iron Angiosperms, 94 Animal protein and fat: in Australian aboriginal diet, 366-68, 378-79; biocultural consequences of diets high in, 231-41; commonly consumed, 215(table); consumption by Mexican poor, 523(table), 535; consumption in IndIa, 21, 211, 445-47; contemporary cultures' use of, 214-15; with latter as preferred food element, 79, 20723 , 388, 395-97; insects as source of, 212-13; nutrients from, 232-35; preference for, 207-16; restrictions on, and Yanomami population growth, 407-20. See also Fats, dietary; Meat consumption ; Protein Anthropoids, 96, 98, 102 Appendix, 100 Aquatic food resources: and Australian rain forest aboriginal diet, 367-68; and dietary variety, 9-10, 16-17. See also Marine foods diet Argentina, cattle industry ill, 33, 545 Arginine, 291 Arthritis, 272-73 Australia, 63, 64, 545 Australian abongmes, 208, 209; annual settlement and subsistence cycle of, 376-82; cannibalism among, 368-73; population regulation of, 373-75; and tropical rain forest subsistence, 357-68 Australopithecines, 105-106; diet, 126-27, 207-208 Aymara peoples, 211 Aztec peoples, 76; and cannibalism, 61, 210 Baboon dIet, 19, 103, 122, 123, 124(table), 125 Baganda peoples, 153 Bambala peoples, 63 Banco Nacional de Costa Rica, 546-47 Bangladesh, 427-28; food classification in, 432-39; rice and wheat in, 427-32 Bantu peoples, 63 Barotseland, 461 Basal energy needs, 95-96, 171-72, 233-35 Beef consumption: effect of beef exports on Costa Rican domestic, 548-53; taboo on, in India, 6465 , 77, 449, 450-52; in U.S., 61, 541-45; U.S. 625 Subject Index Beef consumption (cont.) vs. Costa RIca, annual, 552(table). See also Cattle ; Meat consumption Beef prices, 543-44, 549-50 Bemba peoples, 22 Berber peoples, 21-22 Biocultural adaptive model: biology, taste and, 23132 , 580-81; and contemporary hunter-gatherers, 585-86; and cultural materialism, 589-90; and early hominids, 584-85; and food chOlce, 579-80, 586-88; and primates, 581-84 Biocultural evolution and food, 134-38 Biological dimension to biocultural evolution, 134(fig.), 135(fig.), 136 BlOpsychologlcal determinants of foodways, 79-82, 161-62, 589 Bitter taste avoidances, 182, 196, 580 Black Act, 25 Blindness and vision problems, 173, 440 n.4 Bone density and vegetarian diet, 248 Borboby, Australian aboriginal, 380-81 Bovids, 94 Brazl1, 460, 464-65, 469, 47l(table), 473 n.1 Broad-spectrum depression, 76 Broad-spectrum revolutions, 76, 263-67; and biological stress, 275-76 BuddhIsts, 450 Burmese peoples, 19, 63 Bushmen peoples, 210 C3 plant foods, 95 C4 plant foods, 95, 292 Calcium, 235, 236, 238, 488, 588 Calories: consumption of, among Mexican poor, 528(table), 529(table); labor productiVIty and efficiencIes in, 389(table); sources of, among hunters, 11-13. See also Basal energy needs Camaras de Ganaderos, 547...

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