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Dietary change: changing patterns of eating

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One characteristic of the human diet is the variety of foods eaten and the dietary patterns that can be seen. The capacity of the human species to accept and flourish on the foods that were available for consumption is possibly one reason why the human species has been able to succeed in such a wide range of environments (Andrews and Martin, 1991). While it is customary to assume that dietary changes are taking place at an increasing rate at the present time under the twin influences of developing agronomic practices and food technology, it is possibly misleading to think of periods when the human diet was stable, in fact one suspects that dietary change, whether due to human curiosity or imposed by the natural environment, has been a dominant factor in human evolution (Southgate, 1991a; Ulijaszek, 1991).

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    H. L. Meiselman

  2. Consumer Sciences Department, Institute of Food Research, Earley Gate, Whiteknights Road, RG62EF, Reading, UK

    H. J. H. MacFie

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Southgate, D.A.T. (1996). Dietary change: changing patterns of eating. In: Meiselman, H.L., MacFie, H.J.H. (eds) Food Choice, Acceptance and Consumption. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1221-5_11

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