Evolving human nutrition implications for public health /

"While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of changing human nutrition from...

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Hovedforfatter: Ulijaszek, Stanley J.
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Andre forfattere: Mann, Neil, 1953-, Elton, Sarah
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Serier:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 64
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  • Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Animal Within: 2. Locating human diet in a mammalian framework; 3. Diet and hominin evolution; 4. Seasonality of environment and diet; 5. Evolution of human diet and eating behaviour; Part II. A Brave New World: 6. When our brains left our bodies behind: dietary change and health discordance; 7. Nutrition and infectious disease, past and present; 8. Inequality and nutritional health; Part III. Once Upon a Time in the West: 9. Nutrition transition; 10. Fats in the global balance; 11. Feed the world with carbohydrates; 12. Post-script; Index.