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It takes a genome : how a clash between our genes and modern life is making us sick /
Greg Gibson posits a revolutionary new hypothesis: Our genome is out of equilibrium, both with itself and its environment. Simply put, our genes aren't coping well with modern culture. Our bodies were never designed to subsist on fat and sugary foods; our immune systems weren't designed fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
Pearson Education,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
| Sumario: | Greg Gibson posits a revolutionary new hypothesis: Our genome is out of equilibrium, both with itself and its environment. Simply put, our genes aren't coping well with modern culture. Our bodies were never designed to subsist on fat and sugary foods; our immune systems weren't designed for today's clean, bland environments; our minds weren't designed to process hard-edged, artificial electronic inputs from dawn 'til midnight. And that's why so many of us suffer from chronic diseases that barely touched our ancestors. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 187 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-173) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0137155735 9780137155736 9780137155408 0137155409 |