Metabolic Ghetto

Metabolic Ghetto

An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease

Wells, Jonathan C. K.

Cambridge University Press

03/2019

623

Mole

Inglês

9781108737579

15 a 20 dias

1040

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Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Physiology of Chronic Disease: 2. Models of chronic disease; 3. Links between nutrition and health; 4. The developmental origins of disease; 5. Life-course models of chronic disease aetiology; 6. Applying the capacity-load model; Part II. An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Metabolism: 7. Life history strategy; 8. Ancestral environments; 9. The evolution of human adaptability; 10. Sensitivity in early life; 11. The evolutionary biology of inequality; 12. The metabolic ghetto; Part III. A Historical Perspective on Human Nutrition: 13. The emergence of agriculture; 14. Trade, capitalism and imperialism; 15. Hierarchy and metabolic capacity; 16. The emergence of consumerism; 17. Enforcing obedience; 18. The dual burden of malnutrition; Part IV. Power, Nutrition and Society: 19. A series of games; 20. A question of agency; Epilogue; Index.
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