Evolving Human Nutrition : Implications for Public Health

Evolving Human Nutrition : Implications for Public Health / Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton.

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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ulijaszek, Stanley J., Mann, Neil, 1953-, Elton, Sarah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 64.
Subjects:
Human evolution.
Prehistoric peoples > Food.
Human behavior > Nutritional aspects.
Food habits > History.
Diet > History.
Nutrition > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Diet
Food habits
Human behavior > Nutritional aspects
Human evolution
Nutrition
Prehistoric peoples > Food
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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