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Evolving Human Nutrition : Implications for Public Health /

Exploration of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives and its influence on health and disease, past and present.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ulijaszek, Stanley J., Mann, Neil, 1953-, Elton, Sarah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 64.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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. 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.