{"product_id":"evolving-health-noel-t-boaz-9780471352617","title":"Evolving Health: The Origins of Illness and How the Modern World Is Making Us Sick","description":"Human illnesses can be understood as damage to those adaptations that we took on at various stages in our evolution from pre-life molecules to modern Homo sapiens. Preventing these illnesses entails avoiding what causes the damage-- which too frequently are the everyday hazards of twenty-first-century life, as the chart below shows: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Level of Evolution\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cause of adaptive failure\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e resulting disease or problem\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pre-life\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Environmental poisons\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Certain birth defects\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Single cell (bacteria and amoeba-like)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Viral infection\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Colds\/flu\/HIV\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Morula (sponge-like)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cellular stress\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cancer\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chordate\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Physical stress\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Back pain\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fish\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Excess dietary salt\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hypertension\/heart disease\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Amphibian\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tobacco smoke\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lung cancer\/emphysema\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lower primate\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Excess dietary sugar\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Diabetes mellitus\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Higher primate\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Vitamin C deficiency\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Scurvy\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ape\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Excess dietary protein\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Gout\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Homo sapiens\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Reduced dietary variety\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Nutritionaldiseases\/food allergies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Noel T. Boaz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0471352616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780471352617\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.64h x 6.34w x 0.91d","brand":"Noel T. Boaz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44190552424703,"sku":"9780471352617","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c7c2729b-5abd-4055-8d7c-cafe6b737e17.jpg?v=1690871154","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/evolving-health-noel-t-boaz-9780471352617","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}