About this title: Looking to the past for a healthier future, "Evolving Health" introduces the fascinating findings in the new field of research known as evolutionary medicine. A biological anthropologist on human evolution, Noel Boaz explains the surprising origins of cancer, heart disease, ulcers, and many other conditions with remarkable insight and detail. Through his discussion of the evolution of diseases and how we can avoid them, Boaz provides important guidelines for healthier living from presenting an optimal "paleo-diet" that mimics the mix of foods eaten by primitive humans to explaining how the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780471352617ISBN:0471352616
Description: New in new dust jacket. Excellent Condition! No Remainder Mark, No Damage, 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 250 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: New in New jacket. pp. 250. Cancer, heart disease, emphysema, & many other modern maladies were virtually unknown among our Paleolithic forebears. Here are the surprising origins of modern diseases & how most of them can be prevented. Charts the levels of evolution at which each crucial human adaptation occurred; describes the environ. conditions to which each adaptation was made; & explains how these adaptations unravel in the presence of new, man-made environ. conditions. Designing your ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780471352617ISBN:0471352616
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. 250 pgs. Book has minor water damage on bottom of pages and minor wear on binding and around the egdes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley
Date Published: 2002-04-15
ISBN-13:9780471352617ISBN:0471352616
Description: Good. Pages have a moderate amount of marks and highlighting. There are marks on the bottom of the pages. FAST SHIPPING W/USPS TRACKING! ! ! read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780471352617ISBN:0471352616
Description: New. Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life molecules to modern Homo sapiens. Preventing these illnesses entails avoiding what causes the damage--which too frequen... read more
Description: New in new dust jacket. Book in Fairly New condition. Ships via Regular Mail/ FedEx Courier, Please allow 5 to 6 business days for delivery. read more
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