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Autore |
Lindeberg Staffan <1950-> |
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Titolo |
Food and Western disease : health and nutrition from an evolutionary perspective / / Staffan Lindeberg |
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Oxford ; ; Ames, Iowa : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2010 |
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1-282-38513-5 |
9786612385131 |
1-4443-1717-2 |
1-4443-1718-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (370 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Nutritionally induced diseases |
Human evolution |
Diet in disease |
Prehistoric peoples - Food |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Food and Western Disease; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Why do we get sick?; 1.2 We are changing at pace with the continental drift; 1.3 Are we adapted for milk and bread?; 2 Expanding our perspective; 2.1 The perspective of academic medicine; 2.2 The concept of normality; 2.3 Genetics; 2.4 Dietary guidelines; Problems and limitations in nutritional research; Old and new concepts of healthy diets; 3 Ancestral human diets; 3.1 Available food; 3.2 Nutritional composition; Minerals, trace elements; Common salt; Vitamins; Protein content; Protein quality; Fat content |
Saturated fatPolyunsaturated fat; Trans fatty acids; Monounsaturated fat; Cholesterol content; Carbohydrate content; Carbohydrate quality; Energy density; Total energy intake; pH; Fibre; Phytochemicals; 4 Modern diseases; 4.1 Ischaemic heart disease (coronary heart disease); Incidence studies; The Kitava study, Trobriand Islands; Effects of urbanisation; Relevant dietary factors; Tobacco smoking; Physical activity; 4.2 Stroke; Incidence studies; Relevant dietary factors; 4.3 Atherosclerosis; Prevalence studies; Appearance in animals; Regression |
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