Evolving Health

The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life molecules to modern Homo sapiens. Preventing these illnesses entails avoiding what causes the damage — which too frequently are the everyday hazards of twenty-first-century life, as the chart below shows:Level of Evolution / Cause of adaptive failure / resulting disease or problemPre-life / Environmental poisons / Certain birth defectsSingle cell (bacteria and amoeba-like) / Viral infection / Colds/flu/HIVMorula (sponge-like) / Cellular stress / CancerChordate / Physical stress / Back painFish / Excess dietary salt / Hypertension/heart diseaseAmphibian / Tobacco smoke / Lung cancer/emphysemaLower primate / Excess dietary sugar / Diabetes mellitusHigher primate / Vitamin C deficiency / ScurvyApe / Excess dietary protein / GoutHomo sapiens / Reduced dietary variety / Nutritionaldiseases/food allergies

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Utgivningsdatum2002-04-18
Mått161 x 245 x 24 mm
Vikt488 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780471352617

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List of Tables. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Achieving Adaptive Normality, Your EvolutionaryBirthright. 2. How Our Health Evolved. 3. An Evolutionary Child s Birthright:Perinatal and Pediatric Diseases. 4. The Virus War. 5. Cellular Stress: A General Model for Cancer. 6. Breast Cancer, Prostate Diseases, and Cancersof the Reproductive System. 7. Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure:A Story of Fish and Chips. 8. Why We Smoke. 9. Diabetes Mellitus and the Thrifty Genotype . 10. Gout, Liver Enzymes, and Global Climate Change. 11. Back Pain, Bad Knees, and Flatfeet. 12. Gut Diseases. 13. The Evolution of Psychiatric Disorders. 14. Uncivilized Solutions: ReestablishingAdaptive Normality in Your Life. Notes. Index.