Hi,

Quirks and Quarks is a CBC Radio (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
program.  The program airs at 12 Noon this Saturday.  Click "Toronto" at
www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html to listen to the program.  The program can also
be accessed through Quirks and Quarks web site: www.cbc.ca/quirks/

Rob

| This week on Quirks & Quarks our feature item is:
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| "From Cave Cravings to Canapes:" The Evolution of Human Diet.
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| Advice for healthy eating is everywhere these days, usually wrapped up
| with a scientific rationale. One long-standing suggestion is to get back
| to our roots, and eat the kinds of foods our ancestors did. After all,
| if we evolved to eat certain foods, wouldn't that be what's best for us
| today? The problem is that it's difficult to determine what those
| ancient cave-people were consuming. But new research, presented at the
| American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting last week,
| might give us some clues, and also explain why a prehistoric diet may
| not be the best choice for modern Homo sapiens.
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| Plus - why bird-brain may be a misnomer.
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| All this and more on Quirks & Quarks,  Saturday right after the noon
| news on Radio One.
|
| Bob McDonald
| Host