Evolving Health

The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life molecules to modern Homo sapiens. Preventing these illnesses entails avoiding what causes the damage — which too frequently are the everyday hazards of twenty-first-century life, as the chart below shows:Level of Evolution / Cause of adaptive failure / resulting disease or problemPre-life / Environmental poisons / Certain birth defectsSingle cell (bacteria and amoeba-like) / Viral infection / Colds/flu/HIVMorula (sponge-like) / Cellular stress / CancerChordate / Physical stress / Back painFish / Excess dietary salt / Hypertension/heart diseaseAmphibian / Tobacco smoke / Lung cancer/emphysemaLower primate / Excess dietary sugar / Diabetes mellitusHigher primate / Vitamin C deficiency / ScurvyApe / Excess dietary protein / GoutHomo sapiens / Reduced dietary variety / Nutritionaldiseases/food allergies

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-04-18
Mått:161 x 245 x 24 mm
Vikt:488 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9780471352617

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NOEL BOAZ, Ph.D., Biological Anthropologist, is the founder and Director of the International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research and Professor of Anatomy at Ross University School of Medicine. He is the author of more than fifty scientific papers, the leading textbook in biological anthropology, and two popular science books, Quarry and Eco Homo.

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"...many of the book's points are excellent and would yield delight if effectively delivered to the public and to the clinicla specialists...a gem..."(human-nature.com, 11 June 2002) "...rich in facts and good quality high-fibre solid information..." (Evolving Health Focus, August 2002)

Innehållsförteckning

List of Tables. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Achieving Adaptive Normality, Your EvolutionaryBirthright. 2. How Our Health Evolved. 3. An Evolutionary Child s Birthright:Perinatal and Pediatric Diseases. 4. The Virus War. 5. Cellular Stress: A General Model for Cancer. 6. Breast Cancer, Prostate Diseases, and Cancersof the Reproductive System. 7. Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure:A Story of Fish and Chips. 8. Why We Smoke. 9. Diabetes Mellitus and the Thrifty Genotype . 10. Gout, Liver Enzymes, and Global Climate Change. 11. Back Pain, Bad Knees, and Flatfeet. 12. Gut Diseases. 13. The Evolution of Psychiatric Disorders. 14. Uncivilized Solutions: ReestablishingAdaptive Normality in Your Life. Notes. Index.