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

Sampul Depan
John Wiley & Sons, 1 Okt 2002 - 256 halaman

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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Introduction
1
1 Achieving Adaptive Normality Your Evolutionary Birthright
5
2 How Our Health Evolved
15
3 An Evolutionary Childs Birthright Perinatal and Pediatric Diseases
40
4 The Virus War
60
5 Cellular Stress A General Model for Cancer
73
6 Breast Cancer Prostate Diseases and Cancers of the Reproductive System
87
7 Heart Disease and High Blood Pressure A Story of Fish and Chips
97
9 Diabetes Mellitus and the Thrifty Genotype
124
10 Gout Liver Enzymes and Global Climate Change
136
11 Back Pain Bad Knees and Flatfeet
147
12 Gut Diseases
161
13 The Evolution of Psychiatric Disorders
177
14 Uncivilized Solutions Reestablishing Adaptive Normality in Your Life
197
Notes
225
Index
241

8 Why We Smoke
114
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Adaptive Normality African American amphibians anatomy ancestors ancient animals apes arteries australopithecines baby back pain bacteria become behavior beta cells biological bipedal birth defects body body’s brain breast cancer carcinogenic cause cellular chapter chemical chronic damage depression diet dietary digestive disease drugs early effects environment environmental enzyme estrogen evolutionary medicine evolutionary perspective evolved extracellular fetus fish function genes genetic gland glucagon glucose gout heart hominids hormone human evolution hunter-gatherers hypertension immune system increased infection insulin intestines kidney levels lifestyle liver living lungs mammals metabolic million years ago modern molecules monkeys mother muscle mutation natural selection nerve nicotine organisms oxygen paleodiet pancreas physiological plant population prevent primates problems produce prokaryotes prosimian prostate protein R-complex receptors reproductive salt skin smoke species stress substances sugar syndrome teeth tion tissue tobacco ulcer urate urate oxidase uric acid vertebral viral virus viruses vitamin women

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NOEL BOAZ, Ph.D., Biological Anthropologist, is the founder and Director of the International Institute for Human Evolutionary Research and Professor of Anatomy at Ross University School of Medicine. He is the author of more than fifty scientific papers, the leading textbook in biological anthropology, and two popular science books, Quarry and Eco Homo.

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JudulEvolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick
PengarangNoel T. Boaz
Edisiberilustrasi
PenerbitJohn Wiley & Sons, 2002
ISBN0471212997, 9780471212997
Tebal256 halaman
  
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