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Doves, Diplomats, and Diabetes A Darwinian Interpretation of Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders /
Type 2 diabetes, obesity and other lifestyle disorders are a growing health concern in the modern world. Despite decades of research and worldwide efforts, there are no signs of curbing the growing epidemic. It is time to rethink whether there is something fundamentally wrong in our understanding of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. A Darwinian Way of Thinking
- 2. Diabetes in a Textbook
- 3. Diabetes in an Undergraduate Class
- 4. The Rise and Fall of Thrift
- 5. Of Hawks and Doves
- 6. Of Soldiers and Diplomats
- 7. The Physiology of Aggression
- 8. Deploying the Immunological Garrison
- 9. Why Population Density Matters
- 10. Time to Give up Stress
- 11. Fat: Beyond Energy Storage
- 12. Why Blood Sugar Goes up
- 13. Beating Around the 'Wrong' Bush?
- 14. Behavioral Deficiencies and Behavioral Supplementation:
- 15. Where do we Go From Here?
- Appendix I. Genes/molecules that are associated with aggression and also associated with some component of metabolic syndrome
- Appendix II. Network model of type 2 diabetes
- Appendix III. Model for the Effect of population density on aggression
- Appendix IV. Glucose homeostasis model.