January 2016 11th, 1:56 pm

Each of us must eat or in order to survive. Food is one of our most fundamental biological needs. Humans are omnivorous and can obtain food from a variety of living systems. Obtaining food was the major daily activity of early human beings. There were not enough tools and because of extreme climate conditions earlier societies used lots of energy to gather or hunt enough food for survival. They adapted themselves to the harmony of the nature and they migrated in pursuit of food sources. According to French diet developer Michael Montignac, “From the beginning and up to the Neolithic Period, approximately 10.000 years ago, man [sic] was a nomad who lived by hunting and picking wild fruit and vegetables and his diet was basically made up of game (protein and lipids) as well as wild berries and roots (carbohydrates with low Glycemic Indexes and high fiber content.)” Montignac.com by Micheal Montignac Beginning in the Neolithic era, humans began to create settlements and use simple tools. They imposed limitations to their life style and brought new rules to the environment in which they lived. The Neolithic revolution brought farming, allowing people to produce their own food for the very first time. The new tools and methods of surviving changed the nutrition of humans. “Compared to the hunter-food pickers of the Mesolithic Age, the farmer-cattleman had considerably reduced the variety of the food he ate.”Montignac.com by Micheal Montignac

 

Early Neolithic era farming created a limited diet including grains such as wheat and millet, and meat from goats and sheep. Species varieties for planting were limited by the climate and geographical realities of particular locations. This revolution in dietary lifestyles resulted in some deficiencies which affected health and life spans.

 

With the industrial revolution and emergence of cities and technology, the human diet has become more catastrophic. Food has become more than the thing we eat daily. Food has a deep connection with history, social and cultural roots, ethnic background, biology and geography. All of these elements influence human eating patterns.

 

 

In this millennium, the economy is driven by consumption culture. Food has been commoditized along with other mass produced goods. Throwaway culture has penetrated the food market. This situation could “show us where man lost his way and ended up on a path to obesity, diabetes and heart illness.”Montignac.com by Micheal Montignac

 

There are lots of reasons behind obesity, diabetes and heart illness. “We Humans are indeed omnivorous is deeply inscribed in our bodies, which natural selection has equipped to handle a remarkably wide-range diet”. Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan. M. p:289

However the biology of most of the food which is could find in the supermarkets include of a tiny species of Plants such as Corn and Soybean. “For the past 50 years, U.S. farm policy has been increasingly directed toward driving down the price of farm commodities, including corn and soybeans.”Food Without thought, Schoonover H. and Muller M. Current farm policy about the low cost of corn and soybean, made these two plant two favorite food substance for companies and directed the food companies to design ways to use these additives.

Corn and soybean are two miracle substance - does not exist a couple generation ago are in whole food system. “Corn feeds the chicken and pig, the turkey and the lamb, the catfish and the tilapia and, increasingly, even the salmon”.Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan. M. p:18

The wrong policy of farming, high prices of soil and fertilizers, the regulations in international market all limited human diet in this millennium.