Mismatch: The Lifestyle Diseases Timebomb
The Lifestyle Diseases Timebomb
Taschenbuch
Lieferzeit: Sofort lieferbar I
SG - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen ungelesenes Mängelexemplar gestempelt Versand Büchersendung
ISBN-13:
9780199228386
Veröffentl:
2008
Einband:
Taschenbuch
Seiten:
304
Autor:
Peter Gluckman
Gewicht:
395 g
SKU:
INF1000338275
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
We have built a world that no longer fits our bodies. Our genes - selected through our evolution - and the many processes by which our development is tuned within the womb, limit our capacity to adapt to the modern urban lifestyle. There is a mismatch. We are seeing the impact of this mismatch in the explosion of diabetes, heart disease and obesity. But it also has consequences in earlier puberty and old age.
Bringing together the latest scientific research in evolutionary biology, development, medicine, anthropology and ecology, Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson, both leading medical scientists, argue that many of our problems as modern-day humans can be understood in terms of this fundamental and growing mismatch. It is an insight that we ignore at our peril.
Bringing together the latest scientific research in evolutionary biology, development, medicine, anthropology and ecology, Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson, both leading medical scientists, argue that many of our problems as modern-day humans can be understood in terms of this fundamental and growing mismatch. It is an insight that we ignore at our peril.
MATCH; 1. Our comfort zone; 2. Where have we come from?; 3. When we were very young; 4. Things ain't what they used to be; 5. Constrained by our pasts; MISMATCH; 6. Coming of age; 7. A life of luxury; 8. Four score years and ten; 9. Match and Mismatch; Epilogue
Our modern lifestyles, city-bound with abundant nutrition - are far removed from the hunter-gatherer lifestyles of our ancestors. However we have not evolved to reflect this change. This fascinating and controversial book explores whether it is this 'mismatch' that has led to the deadly explosion in lifestyle diseases we face today.