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While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we
did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the
food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization
and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of
changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives.
It considers what a 'natural' human diet might be, how it has been
shaped across evolutionary time and how we have adapted to changing
food availability. The transition from hunter-gatherer and the rise
of agriculture through to the industrialisation and globalisation
of diet are explored. Far from being adapted to a 'Stone Age' diet,
humans can consume a vast range of foodstuffs. However, being able
to eat anything does not mean that we should eat everything, and
therefore engagement with the evolutionary underpinnings of diet
and factors influencing it are key to better public health
practice.
While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we
did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the
food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization
and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of
changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives.
It considers what a 'natural' human diet might be, how it has been
shaped across evolutionary time and how we have adapted to changing
food availability. The transition from hunter-gatherer and the rise
of agriculture through to the industrialisation and globalisation
of diet are explored. Far from being adapted to a 'Stone Age' diet,
humans can consume a vast range of foodstuffs. However, being able
to eat anything does not mean that we should eat everything, and
therefore engagement with the evolutionary underpinnings of diet
and factors influencing it are key to better public health
practice.
The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and
economic change across the past century, leading to dramatic
changes in the health profiles of all populations represented in
South East and East Asia, Pacific Islands and the islands of
Melanesia. This volume considers evidence concerning prehistoric
migration, and colonial, regional and global processes in the
production of health change in the Asia-Pacific region. Notably, it
examines ways in which a health pattern dominated by
under-nutrition and infection has been displaced in many ways, and
is being displaced elsewhere by over-nutrition and the degenerative
diseases associated with it. This book presents a cohesive view of
the ways in which exchange relationships, economic modernization,
migration and transnational linkages interact with changing rural
subsistence ecologies to influence health patterns in this region.
The early environment in which we grow up has profound, long
lasting, and often irreversible consequences for us throughout our
lives. Stresses due to under nutrition in early childhood can mean
that in adulthood individuals are smaller, more prone to disease,
and have a shorter life expectancy than those with normal diets.
Disease and poor living conditions in infancy and childhood also
have profound implications in adulthood. Whilst environmental
effects on human growth and development are well documented, the
long-term consequences due to processes taking place at the early
stages of growth and development have only in past years become a
focus of intense study. In this volume, first published in 1996,
leading researchers in nutrition, epidemiology, human biology,
anthropology and physiology bring together a uniquely accessible
source of information on this fascinating topic.
The Asia-Pacific region has seen great social, environmental and
economic change across the past century, with great acceleration of
change in the last 20 years, leading to dramatic changes in the
health profiles of all populations represented in South East and
East Asia, Pacific Islands and the islands of Melanesia. This
volume considers recent evidence concerning prehistoric migration,
and colonial, regional and global processes in the production of
health change in the Asia-Pacific region. Notably, it examines ways
in which a health pattern dominated by under-nutrition and
infection has been displaced in many ways, and is being displaced
elsewhere by over-nutrition and the degenerative diseases
associated with it. This book presents a cohesive view of the ways
in which exchange relationships, economic modernisation, migration
and transnational linkages interact with changing rural subsistence
ecologies to influence health patterns in this region.
Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology and is used in
a wide range of applied and research contexts. In this volume,
distinguished contributors including anthropologists, human
biologists, physiologists, nutritionists and clinical scientists
describe many of the ways in which anthropometry is used, and
discuss problems associated with different methods of assessment.
Topics include the measurement of growth asymmetry and variability
in adult body size, measurement error and statistical issues in
anthropometry and the construction and use of growth charts in
growth monitoring. In addition, the use of anthropometry in
assessments of body composition, physical performance and fitness
is discussed. This book will be of interest to graduates and
researchers in human biology, anthropology and nutrition. It will
also be useful to workers in sports medicine, ergonomics,
orthopaedics and paediatrics.
Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some
type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology examines some of
the ways in which measurements of energy intake, expenditure and
balance have been used to study human populations by biological
anthropologists and human biologists. The book provides an
integration of human adaptation and adaptability approaches,
placing these issues in an ecological context by considering
traditional subsistence economies in the developing world. This is
the first volume to present such an integrated approach, and will
be useful in the teaching of biological anthropology, human
population biology, nutritional anthropology, and third world
nutrition at senior undergraduate and graduate student level.
The early environment in which we grow up has profound, long lasting, and often irreversible consequences for us throughout our lives. Stresses due to undernutrition in early childhood can mean that in adulthood individuals are smaller, more prone to disease, and have a shorter life expectancy than those with normal diets. Disease and poor living conditions in infancy and childhood also have serious implications in adulthood. While environmental effects on human growth and development are well documented, the long term consequences due to processes taking place at the early stages of growth and development have only recently become a focus of intense study. In this volume, leading researchers in nutrition, epidemiology, human biology, anthropology and physiology bring together a uniquely accessible source of information on this fascinating topic.
Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some
type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology examines some of
the ways in which measurements of energy intake, expenditure and
balance have been used to study human populations by biological
anthropologists and human biologists. The book provides an
integration of human adaptation and adaptability approaches,
placing these issues in an ecological context by considering
traditional subsistence economies in the developing world. This is
the first volume to present such an integrated approach, and will
be useful in the teaching of biological anthropology, human
population biology, nutritional anthropology, and third world
nutrition at senior undergraduate and graduate student level.
Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology. In this volume, distinguished contributors including anthropologists, human biologists, physiologists, nutritionists, and clinical scientists describe many of the ways in which anthropometry is used, and discuss problems associated with different methods of assessment. Topics include the measurement of growth asymmetry and variability in adult body size, measurement error and statistical issues in anthropometry and the construction and use of growth charts in growth monitoring. The use of anthropometry in assessments of body composition, physical performance and fitness is also discussed. The book will be of interest to graduates and researchers in human biology, anthropology and nutrition. It will also be useful to workers in sports medicine, ergonomics, orthopedics, and pediatrics.
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