Evolving human nutrition [electronic resource] : implications for public health / Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton.
Ulijaszek, Stanley J.; Mann, Neil, 1953-; Elton, Sarah.
2012
GN281 .U55 2012eb
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Title Evolving human nutrition [electronic resource] : implications for public health / Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton.
Author Ulijaszek, Stanley J.
ISBN 9781139776080 electronic bk
1139776088 electronic bk
9781139046794 electronic bk
1139046799 electronic bk
9780521869164
0521869161
Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 405 p.) : ill., maps.)
Call Number GN281 .U55 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 599.93/8
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Added Author Mann, Neil, 1953-
Elton, Sarah.
Series Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology ; 64.
Available in Other Form Evolving human nutrition.
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Locating human diet in a mammalian framework
Diet and hominin evolution
Seasonality of environment and diet
Evolution of human diet and eating behaviour
Dietary change and health discordance
Nutrition and infectious disease, past and present
Inequality and nutritional health
Nutrition transition
Fats in the global balance
Feed the world with carbohydrates.

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