an evolutionary perspective on nutrition, power relations and chronic disease /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jonathan C.K. Wells.
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New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xii, 611 pages .)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Models of chronic disease -- Links between nutrition and health -- The developmental origins of disease -- Life-course models of chronic disease aetiology -- Social, ethnic, and geographical variability -- Life history strategy -- Ancestral environments -- The evolution of human adaptability -- Sensitivity in early life -- The evolutionary biology of inequality -- The metabolic ghetto -- The emergence of agriculture -- Trade, capitalism and imperialism -- Hierarchy, growth and metabolism -- The emergence of consumerism -- The political economy of nutrition -- The dual burden of malnutrition -- A series of games -- A question of agency.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of nutrition in generating hierarchical societies and cultivating a global epidemic of chronic diseases.