Food, genes, and culture eating right for your origins /

"Vegan, low fat, low carb, slow carb: Every diet seems to promise a one-size-fits-all solution to health. But they ignore the diversity of human genes and how they interact with what we eat. In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one perso...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press, [2013]
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Subjects:
Nutrition -- Genetic aspects.
Food habits -- History.
Human evolution.
Physical anthropology.
landbouw.
agriculture.
milieu.
environment.
Environmental Sciences (General)
Milieuwetenschappen (algemeen)
Online Access:SpringerLink - Click here for access
Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. Discerning the Histories Encoded in Our Bodies
  • 2. Searching for the Ancestral Diet. Did Mitochondrial Eve and Java Man Feast on the Same Foods?
  • 3. Finding a Bean for Your Genes and a Buffer Against Malaria
  • 4. The Shaping and Shipping Away of Mediterranean Cuisines
  • 5. Discovering Why Some Dont Like It Hot. Is It a Matter of Taste?
  • 6. Dealing with Migration Headaches. Should We Change Places, Diets, or Genes?
  • 7. Rooting Out the Causes of Disease. Why Diabetes Is So Common Among Desert Dwellers
  • 8. Reconnecting the Health of the People with the Health of the Land. How Hawaiians Are Curing Themselves
  • Sources
  • Index.

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