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Evolving Human Nutrition: Implications for Public Health

Evolving Human Nutrition: Implications for Public Health

Mann, Neil
Elton, Sarah
Ulijaszek, Stanley

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropolog, Book 64

Anthropology

ISBN10: 0521869161
ISBN13: 9780521869164
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 18 2012
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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