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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 frequently are the everyday hazards of twenty-first-century life, as the chart below shows: Level of Evolution Cause of adaptive failure resulting disease or problem Pre-life Environmental poisons Certain birth defects Single cell (bacteria and amoeba-like) Viral infection Colds/flu/HIV Morula (sponge-like) Cellular stress Cancer Chordate Physical stress Back pain Fish Excess dietary salt Hypertension/heart disease Amphibian Tobacco smoke Lung cancer/emphysema Lower primate Excess dietary sugar Diabetes mellitus Higher primate Vitamin C deficiency Scurvy Ape Excess dietary protein Gout Homo sapiens Reduced dietary variety Nutritionaldiseases/food allergies

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Health & personal development Family & health Popular medicine & health

• Plný název: Evolving Health
• Podnázev: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick
• Autor: Noel T. Boaz
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 256
• EAN: 9780471352617
• ISBN: 0471352616
• ID: 04890014
• Nakladatelství: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Hmotnost: 534 g
• Rozměry: 236 × 165 × 21 mm
• Datum vydání: 18. April 2002

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