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

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

ISBN:	9780471352617
Publisher:	Wiley
Imprint:	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published date:	18 Apr 2002
DEWEY:	616.071
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	250
Weight:	534g
Height:	236mm
Width:	165mm
Spine width:	21mm

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