Human diet and nutrition in biocultural perspective : past meets present /: past meets present. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tina Moffat and Tracy Prowse.
• Other Names: Moffat, Tina, 1967-; Prowse, Tracy Lynn
• Contents: List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes Chapter 1. Introduction: A Biocultural Approach to Human Diet and Nutrition; T. Moffat and T. Prowse PART I: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON NUTRITION Chapter 2. Nutritional and Metabolic Influences on Human Brain Evolution; W. R. Leonard, M. L. Robertson and J. J. Snodgrass Chapter 3. Child Growth among Southern African Foragers in the Past; S. Pfeiffer and L. Harrington Chapter 4. Infant and Young Child Feeding in Human Evolution; D. W. Sellen PART II: BREASTFEEDING AND BEYOND: NUTRITION THROUGHOUT THE LIFE COURSE Chapter 5. The Use of Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine Infant and Young Child Feeding Patterns; T. L. Dupras Chapter 6. A Community in Transition: Deconstructing Breastfeeding Trends in Gibraltar, 1955-96; L. A. Sawchuk, E. K. Bryce and S. D. A. Burke PART III: FOOD INSECURITY AND MALNUTRITION Chapter 7. Dietary Diversity, Dietary Transitions and Childhood Nutrition in Nepal: Questions of Methodology and Practice; T. Moffat and E. Finnis Chapter 8. Responses to a Food Crisis and Child Malnutrition in the Nigerien Sahel; R. E. Casiday, K. R. Hampshire, C. Panter-Brick and K. Kilpatrick PART IV: NUTRITIONAL FACTORS IN GROWTH AND DISEASE Chapter 9. Growth, Morbidity, and Mortality in Antiquity: A Case Study from Imperial Rome; T. Prowse, S. Saunders, C. Fitzgerald, L. Bondioli and R. Macchiarelli Chapter 10. Examining Nutritional Aspects of Bone Loss and Fragility across the Life Cycle in Bioarchaeology; S. C. Agarwal and B. Glencross Chapter 11. Obesity - An Emerging Epidemic: Temporal trends in North America; P. T. Katzmarzyk PART V: CONCLUSION Chapter 12. Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Back to the Future; T. Prowse and T. Moffat Contributors; Glossary; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (282 pages)
• Subjects: 394.12; Food habits; Diet; Nutrition; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Diet; Food Habits; Sociobiology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845459819; 1845459814
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