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The Metabolic Ghetto - An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease (Paperback)
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The Metabolic Ghetto - An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease (Paperback)
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Chronic diseases have rapidly become the leading global cause of
morbidity and mortality, yet there is poor understanding of this
transition, or why particular social and ethnic groups are
especially susceptible. In this book, Wells adopts a
multidisciplinary approach to human nutrition, emphasising how
power relations shape the physiological pathways to obesity,
diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Part I reviews
the physiological basis of chronic diseases, presenting a
'capacity-load' model that integrates the nutritional contributions
of developmental experience and adult lifestyle. Part II presents
an evolutionary perspective on the sensitivity of human metabolism
to ecological stresses, highlighting how social hierarchy impacts
metabolism on an intergenerational timescale. Part III reviews how
nutrition has changed over time, as societies evolved and coalesced
towards a single global economic system. Part IV integrates these
physiological, evolutionary and politico-economic perspectives in a
unifying framework, to deepen our understanding of the societal
basis of metabolic ill-health.
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