Food and Western Disease

Author: Staffan Lindeberg
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1405197714

Food and Western Disease: Health and Nutrition from an Evolutionary Perspective

Nutrition science is a highly fractionated, contentious field with rapidly changing viewpoints on both minor and major issues impacting on public health.
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With an evolutionary perspective as its basis, this exciting book provides a framework by which the discipline can finally be coherently explored.By looking at what we know of human evolution and disease in relation to the diets that humans enjoy now and prehistorically, the book allows the reader to begin to truly understand the link between diet and disease in the Western world and move towards a greater knowledge of what can be defined as the optimal human diet.Written by a leading expert Covers all major diseases, including cancer, heart disease, obesity, stroke and dementia Details th

Food and Western Disease by Staffan Lindeberg

Food and Western Disease : Paperback : John Wiley and Sons Ltd : 9781405197717 : 1405197714 : 02 Feb 2010 : The book commences with a look at evolutionary medicine and then covers what we know about the food available to humans in palaeolithic times, and its nutritional components. The major section of the book which follows, covers the main 'modern' diseases including heart disease, stroke, cancer, overweight, dementia and hypertension.

Food and Western Disease: Health and nutrition from an evolutionary perspective, ISBN-13: 9781405197717, ISBN-10: 1405197714

Categories: Dietetics, Prehistoric peoples->Food, Chronic diseases. Contributors: Staffan Lindeberg - Author. Format: Paperback

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With an evolutionary perspective as its basis, this exciting book provides a framework by which the discipline can finally be coherently explored
Written by a leading expert Covers all major diseases, including cancer, heart disease, obesity, stroke and dementia Details th