| Description |
xii, 140 pages : illustrations maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Chapter 1-Defining Important Concepts -- Chapter 2-Molecular Mechanisms of Genetic Variation Linked to Diet -- Chapter 3-Essential Nutrients and Genomic Integrity: Developmental and Degenerative Correlates -- Chapter 4-Nutrients and Cerebral Function in Human Evolution -- Chapter 5-The Evolution of Micronutrient Metabolism -- Chapter 6-Evolved Refinement of the Human Lifecycle Based on Nutritional Criteria -- Chapter 7-The Evolution of Human Disease -- Chapter 8-Contemporary Dietary Patterns that Work: The Mediterranean Diet -- Chapter 9-Some Non-Micronutrient Essential and Nonessential Nutrients with Molecular and Possible Evolutionary Impact --Chapter 10-Natural Food Toxins and the Human Diet -- Chapter 11-Nutrigenomics -- Chapter 12-The Evolution of Protein Function -- Chapter 13-Leading Edge Laboratory Tools in Nutrigenomics and Human Evolutionary Studies -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Presents a portrait of the fundamental role that nutrition has played and continues to play in shaping who and what human beings are, as well as where they evolved from, and where they may be headed as a species. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-132) and index |
| Subject |
Nutrition -- Genetic aspects.
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Molecular biology.
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Human evolution.
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| ISBN |
9780470081594 (hbk.) |
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0470081597 (hbk.) |
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