Malnutrition or „hidden hunger? severely stunts human potential due to imbalanced diets and a lack of vital vitamins and minerals. Good health depends on the availability, affordability, and acceptability of the foods essential to a balanced diet, and these include hardy multipurpose food legumes that can be consumed as vegetables or grains. Grain legumes provide a third of humanity?s protein…
Tim Ingold is one of the world’s leading anthropologists. Over the past five decades, he has not only advanced thinking and research within the discipline of anthropology but also made significant contributions to a wide range of debates in both the arts and human-ities and the natural sciences. Characterised by a series of highly original attempts t…
he World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, worldwide, approximately 900,000 individuals develop each year hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common form of liver cancer [1]. Overall, 69.8% of all HCC cases occur in males, with a male-to-female ratio of 2.66. Accordingly, HCC is the fifth most frequent incident cancer type in men, the ninth in women, and the …
Food issues. Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asia concentrates on the relationship among food, culture, literature, and language in a comparative, transcultural, or literary perspective. The contributions investigate these aspects from different approaches: historical, sociological, anthropological, religious, linguistic, and want to deepen issues such as the s…