Téléchargez le livre : Evolving Health

Evolving Health

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

Éditeur :

Wiley

Paru le : 2002-10-01

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-centu...
Voir tout
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps Voir les informations d'accessibilité
Ebook téléchargement DRM Adobe 🛈
23,99 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Image Louise Reader présentation

Louise Reader

Lisez ce titre sur l'application Louise Reader.

badge apple Application Louise Reader
badge Android Application Louise Reader

Description du livre


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

À propos

Auteur
Noel T. Boaz
Éditeur
Wiley
Collection
n.c
Parution
2002-10-01
Pages
256 pages
EAN papier
9780471352617

Auteur(s) du livre


Defaut-Illustration Noel T. Boaz

Caractéristiques détaillées - droits

EAN PDF
9780471212997
Prix
23,99 €
Nombre pages copiables
0
Nombre pages imprimables
256
Taille du fichier
993 Ko
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps informations d'accessibilité

Suggestions personnalisées