Plant-animal subsistence ratios and macronutrient energy estimations in worldwide hunter-gatherer diets

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 682-692

  Cordain, Loren ^a   Miller, Janette Brand ^b   Eaton, S Boyd ^b   Mann, Neil ^b   Holt, Susanne H A ^b   Speth, John D ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dietary macronutrients; Energy; Ethnographic Atlas; Game meat; Hunter gatherers; Preagricultural diets; Subsistence; Wild foods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRIENT; NUTRITION; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034000301     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/71.3.682     Document Type: Article

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