What Brought Us In Our

Present Predicament ?
“In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of
agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better
life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never
recovered. With agriculture came the gross social and sexual
inequality, the disease and despotism, that curse our existence.”

~ Jared Diamond
“All disease begins in the gut”
It’s a quote attributed to the Ancient Greek physician
Hippocrates nearly 2500 years ago.

Every time we EAT or DRINK or expose ourselves to

chemicals and hormones, we are either FEEDING DISEASE
or FIGHTING it
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Large-Scale
Agriculture

Hunting and
Gathering
Effects of Food Revolution
MILLION OF YEARS 40 YEARS

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 History of Food Revolution
12000 BC
Neolithic: First Agricultural Revolution
started by the Natufians in Fertile
Crescent region
7000 BC
Agriculture reached Europe – Greece and
the Aegean – with evidence of emmer
and einkorn wheat
3500 BC
Irrigation was being used in
Natufians
Irrigation
in the was
Eastern
being
Mediterranean
used in Mesopotamia
begin
Mesopotamia
harvesting (modern-day
wild grassesIraq)
– this
grinding tool dates back to 12,500–9500
BC
History of Food Revolution
800 AD
Arab Agricultural Revolution – the Arab
Empire introduced innovations,
improvements in irrigation
1100 AD
Maize or Corn, Beans and Potato have
been cultivated in Pre-Columbian
America
1700 AD
Second Agricultural Revolution – crop
The seed
Arabdrill
Empire
in the
improved
1700’s – irrigation
perfected rotation, refrigeration, preservation –
systems and
by introduced
Jethro Tull fertilizers from UK to USA
 History of Food Revolution
1900s
Automotive Revolution – advanced the
mode of transportation and distribution of
food
1920s
“Unlimited Fertilizer”, Ammonia was
first manufactured using the Haber-
Bosch Process in 1913
1940s
The Rise of Fast Food Drive-Thru –
Henry
The first
Ford
McDonald’s
produced eight
restaurant
versions
wasof a product of the Car Culture
cars
started
before
in 1948
the Model
by brothers
T of 1908,
Maurice
with
(“Mac”)
which his
and
name
Richard
became
McDonald
synonymous
in San
Bernardino, California.
History of Food Revolution
1960s
Seven Countries Study by Ancel Keys –
trying to connect that Cholesterol causes
Heart Disease
1970s
AHA recommended Low-Fat and in
1977, the first edition of The Dietary
Goals for the US was published
1980s
The Rise of LOW-FAT and FAT-subs

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 History of Food Revolution
1960s
Seven Countries Study by Ancel Keys –
trying to connect that Cholesterol causes
Heart Disease
1970s
AHA recommended Low-Fat and in
1977, the first edition of The Dietary
Goals for the US was published
1980s
The Rise of LOW-FAT and FAT-subs

2000s
Ending the War on Fat – Cover of Time
The COMEBACK of LOW-CARB
in 2014