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

Boaz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471352616 ISBN 13: 9780471352617

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 2002

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Páginas:260Géneros:12:MQ:Nursing&ancillaryservices12:VFJB:Copingwithillness&specificconditionsSinopsis:

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"...many of the book's points are excellent and would yield delight if effectively delivered to the public and to the clinicla specialists..a gem..."(human-nature.com, 11 June 2002) "...rich in facts and good quality high-fibre solid information..." (Evolving Health Focus, August 2002)

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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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• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0471352616
• ISBN 13: 9780471352617
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260