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Author: Staffan Lindeberg
ISBN : 1405197714
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Nutrition science is a highly fractionated, contentious field with rapidly changing viewpoints on both minor and major issues impacting on public health. With an evolutionary perspective as its basis, this exciting book provides a framework by which the discipline can finally be coherently explored.
By looking at what we know of human evolution and disease in relation to the diets that humans enjoy now and prehistorically, the book allows the reader to begin to truly understand the link between diet and disease in the Western world and move towards a greater knowledge of what can be defined as the optimal human diet.
- Written by a leading expert
- Covers all major diseases, including cancer, heart disease, obesity, stroke and dementia
- Details the benefits and risks associated with the Palaeolithic diet
- Draws conclusions on key topics including sustainable nutrition and the question of healthy eating
This important book provides an exciting and useful insight into this fascinating subject area and will be of great interest to nutritionists, dietitians and other members of the health professions. Evolutionary biologists and anthropologists will also find much of interest within the book. All university and research establishments where nutritional sciences, medicine, food science and biological sciences are studied and taught should have copies of this title.
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- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (January 11, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1405197714
- ISBN-13: 978-1405197717
- Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 6.6 x 9.4 inches
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Free Food and Western Disease: Health and Nutrition from an Evolutionary Perspective
Amazon.com recommended this university textbook to me, based on my purchase of hundreds of nutrition books. Well, I hadn't spent so much money on a book since I was in college! But one look at the table of contents was enough to convince me that my nutritional knowledge would never be complete without this information. Then the snow storms delayed the book's arrival by a week as I eagerly anticipated the book's arrival, daily tracking its whereabouts on Amazon.com.
I was not disappointed. I read the book from cover to cover in less than a week. It is jam-packed with information. Nearly every sentence is backed with a footnote citing a study as evidence. There are a few things that I disagree with, for example that a high fat diet may be dangerous, but even the author admits those studies often include grains in the diet (which are, as the author would agree, detrimental to our health). I also wish the author had delved more into the relevance of cooked vs. raw since the Paleolithic diet (advocated in the book) undoubtedly contained mostly raw, enzyme-rich foods.
Why study our evolutionary diet? Author Staffan Lindeberg, MD, PhD, explains that (from the perspective of evolutionary biology) there are four causes of disease or symptoms: attack (as with bacteria and viruses); defense (as with a fever, in which your body is heating itself up to limit the cell division of the bacteria and virus); design error (as with choking on food--airway and gastrointestinal system are crossed); and lack of adaptability to new environment (as with insulin resistance, since we are eating more high glycemic carbs than our ancestors did). The drug companies would have you believe that every disease is a design error and needs to be fixed by a new chemical concoction.
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