Diet and the Disease of Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diet and the Disease of Civilization write by Adrienne Rose Bitar. This book was released on 2018-01-26. Diet and the Disease of Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diet books contribute to a $60-billion industry as they speak to the 45 million Americans who diet every year. Yet these books don’t just tell readers what to eat: they offer complete philosophies about who Americans are and how we should live. Diet and the Disease of Civilization interrupts the predictable debate about eating right to ask a hard question: what if it’s not calories—but concepts—that should be counted? Cultural critic Adrienne Rose Bitar reveals how four popular diets retell the “Fall of Man” as the narrative backbone for our national consciousness. Intensifying the moral panic of the obesity epidemic, they depict civilization itself as a disease and offer diet as the one true cure. Bitar reads each diet—the Paleo Diet, the Garden of Eden Diet, the Pacific Island Diet, the detoxification or detox diet—as both myth and manual, a story with side effects shaping social movements, driving industry, and constructing fundamental ideas about sickness and health. Diet and the Disease of Civilization unearths the ways in which diet books are actually utopian manifestos not just for better bodies, but also for a healthier society and a more perfect world.
Cancer: disease of civilization?
Cancer: disease of civilization? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cancer: disease of civilization? write by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. This book was released on 2020-12-24. Cancer: disease of civilization? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vilhjalmur Stefansson has had the extraordinary privilege and the rare merit to know intimately certain segments of the world which will always be strange to most of us. He has had the alertness to note details, to make correlations which would have escaped others. He has been unhampered by professional or even by lay prejudices. And he has a gift for expressing the ideas which his observations have evoked. The story which he presents in this book is a fascinating one. Here is the sort of thing we call basic research, just as much so as if it were being conducted in the latest of laboratories. Here are the data from a series of experiments which Nature has performed for us—in the Arctic northland, in the tropic forests of Gabon, and in the temperate valley of Hunzaland. She has varied a series of environmental factors yet come up with a like result in the three places, and a result which she has produced, so far as we know, only in those three special combinations of environments, not in any other of her myriads of combinations elsewhere. What have these three in common, that they produce this result, so important to us? Nature will not repeat those experiments. And we will not have another Stefansson to read the data and present them to us. I hope, therefore, that what he has to say will be read carefully and pondered deeply.
Health and the Rise of Civilization
Health and the Rise of Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Health and the Rise of Civilization write by Mark Nathan Cohen. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Health and the Rise of Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Civilized nations popularly assume that "primitive" societies are poor, ill, and malnourished and that progress through civilization automatically implies improved health. In this provocative new book, Mark Nathan Cohen challenges this belief. Using evidence from epidemiology, anthropology, and archaeology, Cohen provides fascinating evidence about the actual effects of civilization on health, suggesting that some aspects of civilization create as many health problems as they prevent or cure. " This book] is certain to become a classic-a prominent and respected source on this subject for years into the future. . . . If you want to read something that will make you think, reflect and reconsider, Cohen's Health and the Rise of Civilization is for you."-S. Boyd Eaton, Los Angeles Times Book Review "A major accomplishment. Cohen is a broad and original thinker who states his views in direct and accessible prose. . . . This is a book that should be read by everyone interested in disease, civilization, and the human condition."-David Courtwright, Journal of the History of Medicine "Deserves to be read by anthropologists concerned with health, medical personnel responsible for communities, and any medical anthropologists whose minds are not too case-hardened. Indeed, it could provide great profit and entertainment to the general reader."-George T. Nurse, Current Anthropology "Cohen has done his homework extraordinarily well, and the coverage of the biomedical, nutritional, demographic, and ethnographic literature about foragers and low energy agriculturists is excellent. The subject of culture and health is near the core of a lot of areas of archaeology and ethnology as well as demography, development economics, and so on. The book deserves a wide readership and a central place in our professional libraries. As a scholarly summary it is without parallel."-Henry Harpending, American Ethnologist
Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization
Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization write by Jennie Rose Joe. This book was released on 1994. Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No detailed description available for "Diabetes as a Disease of Civilization".
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects write by Weston A. Price. This book was released on 2016-01-08. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The answers for perfect teeth, unblemished skin, and pristine hair are in this book. Dr. Price was 75 years ahead of his time. In this book, he demonstrates that isolated groups of people living in accordance with Nature have the best overall physical and mental health. Diseases inflicting “modern” humans are unheard of in most of these study groups. Dr. Weston Andrew Price, DDS, was called the “Isaac Newton of Nutrition” and the “Darwin of Nutrition.” This edition of Dr. Price’s classic is modernized with the epub format. It is easier to read on smartphones and tablets. It also includes updated statistics and additional images. Dr. Price shows that illness, disease, behavior, criminality, anemia, voice, and even cheek-line, are all within the domain of Nutrition. “If civilized man is to survive, he must incorporate the fundamentals of primitive nutritional wisdom into his modern lifestyle.” —Dr. Weston A. Price, DDS
