Evolution of the Human Diet [[electronic resource] ] : The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable |
Autore | Ungar Peter S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (428 p.) |
Disciplina |
599.938
930.1 |
Collana | Human Evolution Series |
Soggetto topico |
Dental anthropology
Diet Fossil hominids Human remains (Archaeology) Prehistoric peoples Teeth, Fossil Prehistoric peoples - Food Fossil hominids - History Diet - history Paleontology Biological Evolution Feeding Behavior Hominidae Paleontology - methods Physical Anthropology Anthropology Social Sciences |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-23512-5
0-19-534601-7 9786612235122 1-280-90790-8 0-19-804047-4 1-4294-6902-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Contributors; I. Introduction; II. The Hominin Fossil Record; III. The Archaeological Record; IV. Paleoecology and Modeling; V. Implications of Studies of Early Hominin Diets; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450787403321 |
Ungar Peter S
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Evolution of the Human Diet [[electronic resource] ] : The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable |
Autore | Ungar Peter S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (428 p.) |
Disciplina |
599.938
930.1 |
Collana | Human Evolution Series |
Soggetto topico |
Dental anthropology
Diet Fossil hominids Human remains (Archaeology) Prehistoric peoples Teeth, Fossil Prehistoric peoples - Food Fossil hominids - History Diet - history Paleontology Biological Evolution Feeding Behavior Hominidae Paleontology - methods Physical Anthropology Anthropology Social Sciences |
ISBN |
0-19-771291-6
1-282-23512-5 0-19-534601-7 9786612235122 1-280-90790-8 0-19-804047-4 1-4294-6902-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Contributors; I. Introduction; II. The Hominin Fossil Record; III. The Archaeological Record; IV. Paleoecology and Modeling; V. Implications of Studies of Early Hominin Diets; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777036003321 |
Ungar Peter S
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 | ||
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Evolution of the Human Diet : The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable |
Autore | Ungar Peter S |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (428 p.) |
Disciplina |
599.938
930.1 |
Collana | Human Evolution Series |
Soggetto topico |
Dental anthropology
Diet Fossil hominids Human remains (Archaeology) Prehistoric peoples Teeth, Fossil Prehistoric peoples - Food Fossil hominids - History Diet - history Paleontology Biological Evolution Feeding Behavior Hominidae Paleontology - methods Physical Anthropology Anthropology Social Sciences |
ISBN |
0-19-029309-8
0-19-771291-6 1-282-23512-5 0-19-534601-7 9786612235122 1-280-90790-8 0-19-804047-4 1-4294-6902-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Contributors; I. Introduction; II. The Hominin Fossil Record; III. The Archaeological Record; IV. Paleoecology and Modeling; V. Implications of Studies of Early Hominin Diets; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821671403321 |
Ungar Peter S
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 | ||
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Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health / / Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Ulijaszek Stanley J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 405 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 599.93/8 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Human evolution
Prehistoric peoples - Food Human behavior - Nutritional aspects Food habits - History Diet - History Nutrition - History |
ISBN |
1-139-79349-7
1-139-88708-4 1-139-77608-8 1-139-77912-5 1-139-78325-4 1-139-04679-9 1-139-78211-8 1-283-71453-1 1-139-77760-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452681403321 |
Ulijaszek Stanley J.
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Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health / / Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Ulijaszek Stanley J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 405 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 599.93/8 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Human evolution
Prehistoric peoples - Food Human behavior - Nutritional aspects Food habits - History Diet - History Nutrition - History |
ISBN |
1-139-79349-7
1-139-88708-4 1-139-77608-8 1-139-77912-5 1-139-78325-4 1-139-04679-9 1-139-78211-8 1-283-71453-1 1-139-77760-2 |
Classificazione | SOC002020 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779342803321 |
Ulijaszek Stanley J.
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Evolving human nutrition : implications for public health / / Stanley Ulijaszek, Neil Mann, Sarah Elton [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Ulijaszek Stanley J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 405 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 599.93/8 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Human evolution
Prehistoric peoples - Food Human behavior - Nutritional aspects Food habits - History Diet - History Nutrition - History |
ISBN |
1-139-79349-7
1-139-88708-4 1-139-77608-8 1-139-77912-5 1-139-78325-4 1-139-04679-9 1-139-78211-8 1-283-71453-1 1-139-77760-2 |
Classificazione | SOC002020 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828778903321 |
Ulijaszek Stanley J.
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Food and Western disease [[electronic resource] ] : health and nutrition from an evolutionary perspective / / Staffan Lindeberg |
Autore | Lindeberg Staffan <1950-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; Ames, Iowa : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.196/39 |
Collana | THEi Wiley ebooks |
Soggetto topico |
Nutritionally induced diseases
Human evolution Diet in disease Prehistoric peoples - Food |
ISBN |
1-282-38513-5
9786612385131 1-4443-1717-2 1-4443-1718-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 studies; Relevant dietary factors 4.4 Type 2 diabetesPrevalence studies; Preventive/causative dietary factors; Diet in established type 2 diabetes; 4.5 Overweight and obesity; Prevalence studies; Potential consequences; Relevant dietary factors; William Banting; 4.6 Insulin resistance; Prevalence studies; Attempts to explain; Associated abnormalities; Relevant dietary factors; 4.7 Hypertension (high blood pressure); Prevalence studies; Effects of urbanisation; Risks with hypertension; Relevant dietary factors; 4.8 Dyslipidaemia (blood lipid disorders); Prevalence studies; Effects of urbanisation; Risks with dyslipidaemia Relevant dietary factors4.9 Heart failure; Prevalence studies; Primary prevention; Secondary prevention; 4.10 Dementia; Prevalence studies; Relevant dietary factors; 4.11 Cancer; Prevalence studies; Prehistoric skeletal remains; Relevant dietary factors; Future research; 4.12 Osteoporosis; Prevalence studies; Prehistoric skeletal remains; Relevant dietary factors; 4.13 Rickets; Rickets in osteological material; Rickets in medical literature; Relevant dietary factors; 4.14 Iron deficiency; Prevalence studies; Prehistoric; Relevant dietary factors; 4.15 Autoimmune diseases; Relevant mechanisms Relevant diseasesPalaeolithic elimination diet; 5 Risks with the Palaeolithic diet; 5.1 Haemochromatosis; 5.2 Iodine deficiency; 5.3 Exaggerated drug effects; Hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure); Low blood sugar; Warfarin-induced bleeding; 6 Viewpoint summary; 6.1 Evolutionary medicine instead of vegetarianism?; 6.2 Traditional populations are spared from overweight and cardiovascular disease; 6.3 Insulin resistance is more than abdominal obesity and diabetes; 6.4 Non-Europeans are affected the hardest; 6.5 'Foreign' proteins in the food; 6.6 Effects of an ancestral diet 6.7 The ancestral diet: a new concept |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139959703321 |
Lindeberg Staffan <1950->
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Food and Western disease : health and nutrition from an evolutionary perspective / / Staffan Lindeberg |
Autore | Lindeberg Staffan <1950-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; Ames, Iowa, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina | 362.196/39 |
Collana | THEi Wiley ebooks |
Soggetto topico |
Nutritionally induced diseases
Human evolution Diet in disease Prehistoric peoples - Food |
ISBN |
1-282-38513-5
9786612385131 1-4443-1717-2 1-4443-1718-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 studies; Relevant dietary factors 4.4 Type 2 diabetesPrevalence studies; Preventive/causative dietary factors; Diet in established type 2 diabetes; 4.5 Overweight and obesity; Prevalence studies; Potential consequences; Relevant dietary factors; William Banting; 4.6 Insulin resistance; Prevalence studies; Attempts to explain; Associated abnormalities; Relevant dietary factors; 4.7 Hypertension (high blood pressure); Prevalence studies; Effects of urbanisation; Risks with hypertension; Relevant dietary factors; 4.8 Dyslipidaemia (blood lipid disorders); Prevalence studies; Effects of urbanisation; Risks with dyslipidaemia Relevant dietary factors4.9 Heart failure; Prevalence studies; Primary prevention; Secondary prevention; 4.10 Dementia; Prevalence studies; Relevant dietary factors; 4.11 Cancer; Prevalence studies; Prehistoric skeletal remains; Relevant dietary factors; Future research; 4.12 Osteoporosis; Prevalence studies; Prehistoric skeletal remains; Relevant dietary factors; 4.13 Rickets; Rickets in osteological material; Rickets in medical literature; Relevant dietary factors; 4.14 Iron deficiency; Prevalence studies; Prehistoric; Relevant dietary factors; 4.15 Autoimmune diseases; Relevant mechanisms Relevant diseasesPalaeolithic elimination diet; 5 Risks with the Palaeolithic diet; 5.1 Haemochromatosis; 5.2 Iodine deficiency; 5.3 Exaggerated drug effects; Hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure); Low blood sugar; Warfarin-induced bleeding; 6 Viewpoint summary; 6.1 Evolutionary medicine instead of vegetarianism?; 6.2 Traditional populations are spared from overweight and cardiovascular disease; 6.3 Insulin resistance is more than abdominal obesity and diabetes; 6.4 Non-Europeans are affected the hardest; 6.5 'Foreign' proteins in the food; 6.6 Effects of an ancestral diet 6.7 The ancestral diet: a new concept |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826474903321 |
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Human diet [[electronic resource] ] : its origin and evolution / / edited by Peter S. Ungar and Mark F. Teaford |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Bergin & Garvey, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
UngarPeter S
TeafordMark Franklyn <1951-> |
Soggetto topico |
Prehistoric peoples - Food
Hunting, Prehistoric Agriculture, Prehistoric Hunting and gathering societies Diet - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-90840-8
9786610908400 0-313-01139-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 Perspectives on the Evolution of Human Diet""; ""Chapter 2 Evolution, Diet, and Health""; ""Chapter 3 Post- Pleistocene Human Evolution: Bioarcheology of the Agricultural Transition""; ""Chapter 4 Early Childhood Health in Foragers""; ""Chapter 5 Meat- Eating, Grandmothering, and the Evolution of Early Human Diets""; ""Chapter 6 A Two- Stage Model of Increased Dietary Quality in Early Hominid Evolution: The Role of Fiber""; ""Chapter 7 Plants of the Apes: Is There a Hominoid Model for the Origins of the Hominid Diet?""
""Chapter 8 Hunter� Gatherer Diets: Wild Foods Signal Relief from Diseases of Affluence""""Chapter 9 Hominid Dietary Niches from Proxy Chemical Indicators in Fossils: The Swartkrans Example""; ""Chapter 10 Paleontological Evidence for the Diets of African Plio- Pleistocene Hominins with Special Reference to Early Homo""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Editors and Contributors"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456243503321 |
Westport, Conn., : Bergin & Garvey, 2002 | ||
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Human diet [[electronic resource] ] : its origin and evolution / / edited by Peter S. Ungar and Mark F. Teaford |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Bergin & Garvey, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
Disciplina | 930.1 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
UngarPeter S
TeafordMark Franklyn <1951-> |
Soggetto topico |
Prehistoric peoples - Food
Hunting, Prehistoric Agriculture, Prehistoric Hunting and gathering societies Diet - History |
ISBN |
1-280-90840-8
9786610908400 0-313-01139-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Chapter 1 Perspectives on the Evolution of Human Diet""; ""Chapter 2 Evolution, Diet, and Health""; ""Chapter 3 Post- Pleistocene Human Evolution: Bioarcheology of the Agricultural Transition""; ""Chapter 4 Early Childhood Health in Foragers""; ""Chapter 5 Meat- Eating, Grandmothering, and the Evolution of Early Human Diets""; ""Chapter 6 A Two- Stage Model of Increased Dietary Quality in Early Hominid Evolution: The Role of Fiber""; ""Chapter 7 Plants of the Apes: Is There a Hominoid Model for the Origins of the Hominid Diet?""
""Chapter 8 Hunter� Gatherer Diets: Wild Foods Signal Relief from Diseases of Affluence""""Chapter 9 Hominid Dietary Niches from Proxy Chemical Indicators in Fossils: The Swartkrans Example""; ""Chapter 10 Paleontological Evidence for the Diets of African Plio- Pleistocene Hominins with Special Reference to Early Homo""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Editors and Contributors"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780350303321 |
Westport, Conn., : Bergin & Garvey, 2002 | ||
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