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-> | ||
Oxford ; ; Ames, Iowa : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Lindeberg Staffan <1950-> | ||
Oxford ; ; Ames, Iowa : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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