The Metabolic Ghetto An Evolutionary Perspective On Nutrition Power Relations And Chronic Disease Jonathan C K Wells by Jonathan C. K. Wells 9780511972959, 0511972954 instant download after payment.

Chronic diseases have rapidly become the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality,
yet there is poor understanding of this transition, or why particular social and ethnic groups
are especially susceptible. In this book, Wells adopts a multidisciplinary approach to
human nutrition, emphasizing how power relations shape the physiological pathways to
obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Part I reviews the physiological basis of chronic diseases, presenting a ‘capacity–load’ model that integrates the
nutritional contributions of developmental experience and adult lifestyle. Part II presents
an evolutionary perspective on the sensitivity of human metabolism to ecological stresses,
highlighting how social hierarchy impacts metabolism on an intergenerational timescale.
Part III reviews how nutrition has changed over time, as societies evolved and coalesced
towards a single global economic system. Part IV integrates these physiological, evolutionary and politico-economic perspectives in a unifying framework, to deepen our understanding of the societal basis of metabolic ill-health.