Author: John Royle Casley-Smith
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Languages : en
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Brief summary of address given to ANZAAS Conference; Central Australian natives have low blood pressures, low serum cholesterol levels.
Blood Pressure, Serum Cholesterol and Atherosclerosis in Australian Aborigines
Author: John Royle Casley-Smith
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Brief summary of address given to ANZAAS Conference; Central Australian natives have low blood pressures, low serum cholesterol levels.
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Languages : en
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Brief summary of address given to ANZAAS Conference; Central Australian natives have low blood pressures, low serum cholesterol levels.
Australian Aboriginal Studies
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Human Biology of Aborigines in Cape York
Author: Robert Lewis Kirk
Publisher: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Based on the presentations at a one-day symposium on The human biology of Aborigines in Cape York, held in the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, on 24 May, 1972.
Publisher: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Based on the presentations at a one-day symposium on The human biology of Aborigines in Cape York, held in the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, on 24 May, 1972.
The Medical Journal of Australia
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Western Diseases, Their Emergence and Prevention
Author: Hubert Carey Trowell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674950207
Category : Chronic diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
In this major synthesis of cross-cultural research, 34 distinguished scientists study 25 common metabolic and degenerative diseases characteristic of all advanced Western nations and then examine their incidence in developing countries, among both hunter-gatherers and peasant agriculturalists. Thus the authors provide a unique opportunity to compare epidemiological data reflecting modern modes of life with data influenced by habits and diets dating back 400 generations to the advent of agriculture, and even 200,000 generations or more to the dawn of man. The results confirm the view that diseases like hypertension, lung cancer, diverticular disease, and appendicitis are maladaptations to environmental factors introduced since the Industrial Revolution. They also demonstrate that such diseases become more prevalent when Western lifestyles are adopted in primitive societies. Certain studies reveal a regression of disease incidence when exercise is increased and a diet high in starch and fiber, low in fat and salt, is resumed--characteristics of a simpler way of life. Western Diseases greatly broadens our perspective on some of the most vexing health problems in our society. It will be an essential reference for epidemiologists, nutritionists, and gastroenterologists in particular.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674950207
Category : Chronic diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
In this major synthesis of cross-cultural research, 34 distinguished scientists study 25 common metabolic and degenerative diseases characteristic of all advanced Western nations and then examine their incidence in developing countries, among both hunter-gatherers and peasant agriculturalists. Thus the authors provide a unique opportunity to compare epidemiological data reflecting modern modes of life with data influenced by habits and diets dating back 400 generations to the advent of agriculture, and even 200,000 generations or more to the dawn of man. The results confirm the view that diseases like hypertension, lung cancer, diverticular disease, and appendicitis are maladaptations to environmental factors introduced since the Industrial Revolution. They also demonstrate that such diseases become more prevalent when Western lifestyles are adopted in primitive societies. Certain studies reveal a regression of disease incidence when exercise is increased and a diet high in starch and fiber, low in fat and salt, is resumed--characteristics of a simpler way of life. Western Diseases greatly broadens our perspective on some of the most vexing health problems in our society. It will be an essential reference for epidemiologists, nutritionists, and gastroenterologists in particular.
Health and the Rise of Civilization
Author: Mark Nathan Cohen
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300050233
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300050233
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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
Medical Journal of Australia
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Medical Sociology: The nature of medical sociology
Author: Graham Scambler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415317801
Category : Delivery of Health Care
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415317801
Category : Delivery of Health Care
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Central Australian and Western Desert Regions
Author: Beryl F. Craig
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Listed alphabetically under author, with subject and tribal indexes.
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Listed alphabetically under author, with subject and tribal indexes.
Diet and Health
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309039940
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 765
Book Description
Diet and Health examines the many complex issues concerning diet and its role in increasing or decreasing the risk of chronic disease. It proposes dietary recommendations for reducing the risk of the major diseases and causes of death today: atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (including heart attack and stroke), cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, liver disease, and dental caries.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309039940
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 765
Book Description
Diet and Health examines the many complex issues concerning diet and its role in increasing or decreasing the risk of chronic disease. It proposes dietary recommendations for reducing the risk of the major diseases and causes of death today: atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (including heart attack and stroke), cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, liver disease, and dental caries.