Evolving Human Nutrition - Implications for Public Health

Exploration of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives and its influence on health and disease, past and present.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Animal Within: 2. Locating human diet in a mammalian framework; 3. Diet and hominin evolution; 4. Seasonality of environment and diet; 5. Evolution of human diet and eating behaviour; Part II. A Brave New World: 6. When our brains left our bodies behind: dietary change and health discordance; 7. Nutrition and infectious disease, past and present; 8. Inequality and nutritional health; Part III. Once upon a Time in the West: 9. Nutrition transition; 10. Fats in the global balance; 11. Feed the world with carbohydrates; 12. Post-script; Index.

About the author

Stanley Ulijaszek is Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Oxford and Director of the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity. His work on nutritional ecology and anthropology has involved fieldwork and research in Papua New Guinea, the Cook Islands and South Asia, while his interests in dietary transitions have led him to examine the evolutionary basis of obesity.Neil Mann is Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry and head of the Food Science department at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has worked extensively on the nutritional biochemistry of fatty acids and has led several nutritional clinical trials investigating the role of altered macronutrient dietary balance on diseases related to western lifestyle, including acne and diabetes.Sarah Elton is Reader in Anatomy at the Hull York Medical School. She works on the ecological context for human evolution, with a focus on primate morphology, biogeography, ecology and evolution. Alongside her research into primates, she has written on evolutionary approaches to human diet, reproduction and medical education.

Summary

Exploring what it is to be human through a dietary lens, this book examines human nutrition, how it has evolved and how it influences health and disease past and present. It considers what a 'natural' human diet might be and how this has been affected by social transformations.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Elton, Elton Sarah, Neil Mann, Mann Neil, Stanley Ulijaszek, Stanley J. Ulijaszek, Stanley J. (University of Oxford) Ulijaszek, Stanley J. Mann Ulijaszek, Ulijaszek Stanley J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.2013
• EAN: 9781107692664
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69266-4
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology; Cambridge Studies; Cambridge Studies in Biologica; Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology; Cambridge Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Evolution, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Dietetics & nutrition, Personal & public health, Human biology, Dietetics and nutrition