Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick Tapa dura - 2002
de Noel T. Boaz
Primera línea
Is it possible that something that makes us feel good might really not be good for us?
Descripción de contraportada
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 problem
Pre-life / Environmental poisons / Certain birth defects
Single cell (bacteria and amoeba-like) / Viral infection / Colds/flu/HIV
Morula (sponge-like) / Cellular stress / Cancer
Chordate / Physical stress / Back pain
Fish / Excess dietary salt / Hypertension/heart disease
Amphibian / Tobacco smoke / Lung cancer/emphysema
Lower primate / Excess dietary sugar / Diabetes mellitus
Higher primate / Vitamin C deficiency / Scurvy
Ape / Excess dietary protein / Gout
Homo sapiens / Reduced dietary variety / Nutritionaldiseases/food allergies
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Evolving Health
If you're seeking a healthier future, look to the past. Cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and many other modern maladies were virtually unknown among our Paleolithic forebears. In Evolving Health, noted anthropologist and evolution researcher Noel Boaz reveals the surprising origins of these diseases and demonstrates how most of them can be prevented.
Evolving Health charts the levels of evolution at which each crucial human adaptation occurred; describes the environmental conditions to which each adaptation was made; and explains how these adaptations unravel in the presence of new, man-made environmental conditions. The knowledge of how each adaptation came about and how a modern disease deranges that adaptation furnishes important insights for the prevention and treatment of disease.
From birth defects to viral infections, from breast cancer to back pain, this remarkably insightful and detailed guide uncovers the root causes of a wide variety of ailments and presents a radically "uncivilized" approach to preventing these "civilized" diseases. Designing your lifestyle in accordance with our evolved adaptations, an approach Boaz terms "Adaptive Normality," enables you to reclaim your evolutionary birthright, take responsibility for your own health, and improve your quality of life for years to come.
Evolving Health provides a well-reasoned perspective on the many diseases that plague modern life and gives a scientific basis for evaluating the claims and counterclaims of today's medical research. Read it and discover how to protect yourself from illness--by treating your body as millions of years of evolution have designed it to be treated.
Detalles
- Título Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick
- Autor Noel T. Boaz
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición [ Edition: first
- Páginas 256
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Wiley, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2002-04-11
- ISBN 9780471352617 / 0471352616
- Peso 1.09 libras (0.49 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.64 x 6.34 x 0.91 pulgadas (24.49 x 16.10 x 2.31 cm)
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Temas
- Topical: Family
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Library of Congress subjects Culture, Evolution
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2001006727
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.071
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