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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 person coul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Environmental sciences.
Agriculture.
Environment.
Environment, general.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-493-2
Table of 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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