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Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World is Making Us Sick
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Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World is Making Us Sick
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by Noel T. Boaz
Sales Rank : 223050
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Hardcover: 250 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition April 15, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471352616
ISBN-13: 978-0471352617
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Product Review
"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
"many of the book's points are excellent and would yield delight if effectively delivered to the public and to the clinicla specialistsa gem"(human-nature.com, 11 June 2002)
"rich in facts and good quality high-fibre solid information" (Evolving Health Focus, August 2002)
"rich in facts and good quality high-fibre solid information" -- Evolving Health Focus, August 2002
Product Description
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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