How did most people acquire food during the Ice Age? How did their nutrition compare with modern diets?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Food gathering strategies during the Ice Age helped meet nutritional needs
1) Hunted animals rich in body fat
a, animal fat is the world's most energy-abundant food, yielding on average three times as many calories as any other nourishment
2) People ate about five pounds of food and 3,000 calories a day
b. gathered a few starchy grains and relatively copious fruit and tubers
3) Foraging and harvesting from their surroundings
B. Nutrition was different than modern diets
1) While fat was considered an important resource for calories in the Ice Age, modern diets shy away from dietary fat
2) Foraged products along with the high ascorbic acid content of animal blood and liver provided five times the average intake of vitamin C of an American today
3) Fat was considered beautiful and a sign of health in the Ice-age era
a, One of the oldest artworks in the world is the Venus of Willendorf—a plump little carving of a fat female
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