An imminent threat: lifestyle diseases and mismatch Low Tox
In their book, Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson discuss how our genes and development processes are not adapted to modern urban lifestyles, leading to health issues like diabetes and obesity. They argue that many modern problems can be understood in terms of this mismatch.
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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.
ASIN : B003FBTXLI
Publisher : OUP Oxford; 1st edition (February 14, 2008)
Publication date : February 14, 2008
Language : English
File size : 713 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
Print length : 297 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 0199228388
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