Our Palates, Our Landscapes, Ourselves becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside home routines, treatment sessions, interdisciplinary consultation, and health-related skill support. In Our Palates, Our Landscapes, Ourselves, for this course, the practical stakes show up in safe, humane intervention that respects health variables and daily-life feasibility, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Liking for foods reveals the nature of our relationships with landscapes. A refined palate, which enables animals to meet needs for nutrients and self-medicate, evolves from three interrelated processes: metabolically mediated flavor-feedback associations that alter liking for food as a function of needs; availability of phytochemically and biochemically rich assortments of foods; and learning in utero and early in life to eat nourishing combinations of foods. For herbivores, phytochemically rich diets bolster health and protect against diseases and pathogens. The benefits to humans accrue as livestock assimilate some phytochemicals and convert others into metabolites which become meat and milk that enhance palatability and promote human health. Regrettably, during the past century, the flavors of meat, dairy, and produce have become bland, while ultraprocessed foods have become irresistible, as the food industry learned to link artificial flavors with feedback from energy-rich compounds that obscure nutritional sameness and diminish health. Thus, the roles plants and animals once played in nutrition have been usurped by ultraprocessed foods that are altered, fortified, and enriched in ways that adversely affect appetitive states and food preferences. The need to amend ultraprocessed foods could be eliminated by creating cultures that know how to combine wholesome foods into meals that nourish and satiate. Severed relationships between our palates and landscapes should remind us we are members of nature's communities: what we do to them, we do to ourselves. Only by nourishing them can we nourish ourselves. Learning Objective: To illustrate how diverse mixtures of plants influence the health of soil, plants, herbivores, and humans. In essence, plants turn dirt into soil and diverse mixtures of plants turn soil into homes, grocery stores, and pharmacies for all life below and above ground.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
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