Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health
(Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology, 64)
Cambridge University Press, 2012
- : hbk
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives. It considers what a 'natural' human diet might be, how it has been shaped across evolutionary time and how we have adapted to changing food availability. The transition from hunter-gatherer and the rise of agriculture through to the industrialisation and globalisation of diet are explored. Far from being adapted to a 'Stone Age' diet, humans can consume a vast range of foodstuffs. However, being able to eat anything does not mean that we should eat everything, and therefore engagement with the evolutionary underpinnings of diet and factors influencing it are key to better public health practice.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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. When our brains left our bodies behind: 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
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"