Kniha Evolving Health Noel T. Boaz

Evolving Health

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

Autor: Noel T. Boaz
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Pevná
Vydavateľ: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
Odosielame za 9-15 dní
25.03
Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages i...

Informácie o knihe

Autor
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydalo
2002
Stránok
256
EAN
9780471352617
ISBN
0471352616
Enbook ID
04890014
Hmotnosť
534
Rozmery
165 x 236 x 21

Kompletný popis

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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