Jeff Leach	Anthropologist, writer and health advocate Founder of the Paleobiotics Lab
	[RESEARCH INTEREST] Evolution of human diet / nutrition, small-scale foraging societies, ethnography, prebiotics, intestinal microflora, evolutionary trends in cooking technology, pre-, pro-, synbiotics, public health and nutrition, cultural resource management, natural and cultural formation processes

[SELECT RECENT PUBLICATIONS]

Leach JD July 28, 2008. Gut Check, Op-ed, San Francisco Chronicle.

Leach JD. 2008. Prebiotics nothing new, says evolutionary hitchhiker. Functional Ingredients Magazine, June 2008.

Leach JD. 2008. Are daily dietary fibre recommendations too low? an evolutionary perspective. Network Health Dietitians Magazine May, 2008. 

Leach JD. 2007 Paleo Longevity Redux.  Letter to the Editor, Public Health Nutrition.

Leach JD. 2007. Prebiotics in Ancient Diets. Food Science and Technology Bulletin, 4 (1):1-8.  

Leach JD. 2007. Evolutionary perspective on dietary intake of fibre and colorectal cancer. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2007) 61, 140–142  [PubMed]

Fighting E. coli the old fashioned way, Op-ed, San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2007

Leach JD, Gibson GR, Van Loo J. 2006. Human Evolution, Nutritional Ecology and Prebiotics in Ancient Diet. Bioscience & Microflora Vol. 25, No. 1. pp 1-8  

Leach, J.D., Rastall, R.A. and Gibson, G.R. 2006. Prebiotics: Past, Present and Future, In Gibson, G.R. and Rastall, R.A. (eds) Prebiotics: Development and Application. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., pgs 237-248.

Leach JD. 2006. Reconsidering Ancient Caloric Yields from Cultivated Agave in Southern Arizona. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science. 39(1): 18-21.

Leach, J.D., Bousman, C.B. and D. Nickels. 2005. Comments on Assigning a Primary Context to Artifacts Recovered from Burned Rock Middens. Journal of Field Archaeology 30(2): 201-203.

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