Evolving Health
(Sprache: Englisch)
Introduces major health findings from a new field of research known as evolutionary medicine, which uses the history of human evolution to explain the origins of diseases and ailments such as cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and ulcers. Includes important prevention and treatment information.
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Introduces major health findings from a new field of research known as evolutionary medicine, which uses the history of human evolution to explain the origins of diseases and ailments such as cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and ulcers. Includes important prevention and treatment information.
Klappentext zu „Evolving Health “
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 EvolutionCause of adaptive failureresulting disease or problemPre-lifeEnvironmental poisonsCertain birth defectsSingle cell (bacteria and amoeba-like)Viral infectionColds/flu/HIVMorula (sponge-like)Cellular stressCancerChordatePhysical stressBack painFishExcess dietary saltHypertension/heart diseaseAmphibianTobacco smokeLung cancer/emphysemaLower primateExcess dietary sugarDiabetes mellitusHigher primateVitamin C deficiencyScurvyApeExcess dietary proteinGoutHomo sapiensReduced dietary varietyNutritionaldiseases/food allergies
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Evolving Health “
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.
Autoren-Porträt von Noal Boaz
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Noal Boaz
- 2002, 260 Seiten, Maße: 16,1 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0471352616
- ISBN-13: 9780471352617
- Erscheinungsdatum: 28.03.2002
Sprache:
Englisch
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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)
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