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While primitive human spent many hours every day chewing raw meat, nuts, seeds, and roots, consuming 300 to 400 calories per hour, modern Americans bite, chew, chew, swallow, and glug entire meals in mere minutes. According to Deniel E. Lieberman, professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, “the size of our faces has shrunk about 12% since the Ice Age when humans probably spent much more time chewing harder, tougher food to get the calories they needed for survival”.

Excerpted from page 185 of ‘Death by Supermarket’ by Nancy Deville