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Author : Stanley J. Ulijaszek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0521869161
Exploration of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives and its influence on health and disease, past and present.
Author : Peter S. Ungar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313011397
Diet is key to understanding the past, present, and future of our species. Much of human evolutionary success can be attributed to our ability to consume a wide range of foods. On the other hand, recent changes in the types of foods we eat may lie at the root of many of the health problems we face today. To deal with these problems, we must understand the evolution of the human diet. Studies of traditional peoples, non-human primates, human fossil and archaeological remains, nutritional chemistry, and evolutionary medicine, to name just a few, all contribute to our understanding of the evolution of the human diet. Still, as analyses become more specialized, researchers become more narrowly focused and isolated. This volume attempts to bring together authors schooled in a variety of academic disciplines so that we might begin to build a more cohesive view of the evolution of the human diet. The book demonstrates how past diets are reconstructed using both direct analogies with living traditional peoples and non-human primates, and studies of the bones and teeth of fossils. An understanding of our ancestral diets reveals how health relates to nutrition, and conclusions can be drawn as to how we may alter our current diets to further our health.
Author : Michael Crawford
Publisher : Keats Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780879836573
Author : Staffan Lindeberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1405197714
Nutrition science is a highly fractionated, contentious field with rapidly changing viewpoints on both minor and major issues impacting on public health. With an evolutionary perspective as its basis, this exciting book provides a framework by which the discipline can finally be coherently explored. By looking at what we know of human evolution and disease in relation to the diets that humans enjoy now and prehistorically, the book allows the reader to begin to truly understand the link between diet and disease in the Western world and move towards a greater knowledge of what can be defined as the optimal human diet. Written by a leading expert Covers all major diseases, including cancer, heart disease, obesity, stroke and dementia Details the benefits and risks associated with the Palaeolithic diet Draws conclusions on key topics including sustainable nutrition and the question of healthy eating This important book provides an exciting and useful insight into this fascinating subject area and will be of great interest to nutritionists, dietitians and other members of the health professions. Evolutionary biologists and anthropologists will also find much of interest within the book. All university and research establishments where nutritional sciences, medicine, food science and biological sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this title.
Author : Daniel Lieberman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 030774180X
A landmark book of popular science that gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years—with charts and line drawings throughout. “Fascinating.... A readable introduction to the whole field and great on the making of our physicality.”—Nature In this book, Daniel E. Lieberman illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering; and how cultural changes like the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions have impacted us physically. He shows how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and advancements in the modern world is occasioning a paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease. And finally—provocatively—he advocates the use of evolutionary information to help nudge, push, and sometimes even compel us to create a more salubrious environment and pursue better lifestyles.
Author : Tina Moffat
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1845459814
There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humankind than diet and nutrition. Throughout human history nutrition has been shaped by political, economic, and cultural forces, and in turn, access to food and nutrition has altered the course and direction of human societies. Using a biocultural approach, the contributors to this volume investigate the ways in which food is both an essential resource fundamental to human health and an expression of human culture and society. The chapters deal with aspects of diet and human nutrition through space and time and span prehistoric, historic, and contemporary societies spread over various geographical regions, including Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia to highlight how biology and culture are inextricably linked.
Author : Roderick Floud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1139500805
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. It examines how we define and measure health and nutrition as well as key issues such as whether increased longevity contributes to greater productivity or, instead, imposes burdens on society through the higher costs of healthcare and pensions. The result is a major contribution to economic and social history with important implications for today's developing world and the health trends of the future.
Author : N. Atiba Amen-Ra
Publisher : Nun Amen-Ra
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2003-10
Category :
ISBN : 0974146900
Author : Marvin Harris
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781439901038
An unprecedented interdisciplinary effort suggests that there is a systematic theory behind why humans eat what they eat.
Author : Kerry G. Brock
Publisher : BRIT Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1889878405
"We want to examine what the scientific evidence suggests is really going on when we eat food, and how we can eat and live in a way that best gives us the health benefits of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle while living in and enjoying the advantages of the modern world. We also hope to use the evidence to explore how we can increase our chances of avoiding chronic diseases, obesity, and other health problems -- the "Diseases of Civilization."--P. 7.