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This is a fascinating, gentle, and quite disturbing book... a tender and remarkable attempt to bring about an imaginative understanding of the poverty we would all like to make history. It is a book which should be read.
The Tablet
On the whole [Russells] prose is tasty. She turns a vast range of unusual material into a dish that goes down very nicelyand leaves you hungry for more.
Financial Times Magazine
[Russell] writes with immediacy and authority.
Natural History Magazine
Fascinating... This rather grim subject comes to seem profound, thanks to Russells ruminative prose style and keen intelligence.
The Guardian
In a country where cookbooks sell by the millions, a book about hunger may seem out of place. But Sharman Apt Russell gives it a place with Hunger: An Unnatural History.
The Associated Press
Offers an important history into the nature and culture of hunger.
The Bookwatch
Sharman Apt Russell earns her middle name by using our empathy for the specific to make us understand the unimaginable in Hunger: AnUnnatural History... as Russell well informs, it is indeed a harsh world if you are hungry.
Orion
Hunger is a feast for the reader. Consider Russells book an opportunity to feed your mind by examining the breadth and scope of that concept.
Blogcritics.org
This is a good book to read while youre eating.
Santa Fe New Mexican
Empty stomachswhether for spectacle, religious rite, political protest or medical cureare the subject of Sharman Apt Russells insightful Hunger: An Unnatural History.
The Washington Post Book World
Extraordinarily well-crafted, far-reaching, and heart-wrenching investigation.
Booklist
Natural science writer Russell expands our understanding of starvation, examining its various manifestations.... Russells readable account is a provocative blend of science and anthropology.
Library Journal
Russell provides a fascinating picture of the ways that the quest of food shapes our lives.
Science News
Award-winning author Sharman Apt Russell explores the many manifestations of hunger in this fascinating work that covers everything from starvation to diets to hunger strikes and anorexia nervosa.... She has excelled in a genre of nonfiction literature which might be called single-subject exploration.
Spirituality & Health Magazine
An engrossing account of the myriad aspects of hunger, from its psychological and physical effect on the body to the spiritual, therapeutic and political motivations for fasting.... While the subject is often somber, the presentation is one of verve and styleand the end-of-book notes provide a useful guide for readers whose interest has been piqued.
Kirkus Reviews
With its expert blend of scientific reportage, world history and moral commentary, Russells work is informative and haunting.
Publishers Weekly
Other Books by
Sharman Apt Russell
An Obsession with Butterflies
Anatomy of a Rose
Songs of the Fluteplayer
Kill the Cowboy
When the Land Was Young
To my family
Copyright 2005 by Sharman Apt Russell
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Russell, Sharman Apt.
Hunger : an unnatural history / Sharman Apt Russell.
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Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13 978-0-465-07163-0
ISBN-10 0-465-07163-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
eBook ISBN: 9780786722396
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HUNGER ARTISTS
H UNGER IS A COUNTRY WE ENTER EVERY DAY, like a commuter across a friendly border. We wake up hungry. We endure that for a matter of minutes before we break our fast. Later we may skip lunch and miss dinner. We may not eat for religious reasons. We may not eat before surgery. We may go on a three-day fast to cleanse ourselves of toxins and boredom. We may go on a longer fast to imitate Christ in the desert or to lose weight. We may go on a hunger strike. If we are lost at sea, if we have lost our job, if we are at war, we may not be hungry by choice.
Our body is a circle of messages: communication, feedback, updates. Hunger and satiety are the most basic of these. Every day, we learn more about how this system works. We know what hormones run through the blood screaming, Eat! We know which ones follow murmuring, Enough. We know that it is relatively easy to repress the signal for enough. A gene malfunctions, and a three-year-old girl weighs a hundred pounds: her body does not tell her when to stop eating. That signal is complexly influenced by genetics, chemistry, and culture. For many of us, it has become blurred. Our body doesnt give us the news or doesnt give it with enough emphasis.
The signal for hunger is much, much harder to turn off. We are omnivores with an oversized brain that requires a lot of energy. We are not specialized in how we get our food. Instead, we are always willing, always alert, always ready with a rock or digging stick. We are happy to snack all day long. We are particularly drawn to the high-caloric bit of fat around the deers kidney and the sweet taste of berries. Our love of fat and sugar has been associated with the same chemical responses that underlie our addictions to alcohol and drugs; this cycle of addiction may have developed to encourage eating behavior. We hunger easily, we find food, we get a chemical reward. Then were hungry again. Thats good, because the next time we look for food, we may not find it. Better keep eating while you can.
Human beings evolved for a bad day of hunting, a bad week of hunting, a bad crop, a bad year of crops. We were hungry even in that first Garden of Eden, what some anthropologists call the Paleoterrific, a world full of large animals and relatively few people. Paleolithic bones and teeth occasionally show an unnatural pause in growth, a sign of food shortage. Our diet didnt get better as our population grew and the big-game species died out. In the Mesolithic, we foraged more intensively for plants and hunted smaller game with new tools like nets and snares. In the Neolithic, we invented agriculture, which sparked the rise of cities. There is no evidence that any of these changes reduced the odds of starvation or malnutrition. A more common trend seems to be that smallgame hunters were shorter and less nourished than their Paleolithic ancestors, farmers less healthy than hunters-and-gatherers, and city-dwellers less robust than farmers. We just kept getting hungrier.
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