Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology examines some of the ways in which measurements of energy intake, expenditure and balance have been used to study human populations by biological anthropologists and human biologists. The book provides an integration of human adaptation and adaptability approaches, placing these issues in an ecological context by considering traditional subsistence economies in the developing world. This is the first volume to present such an integrated approach, and will be useful in the teaching of biological anthropology, human population biology, nutritional anthropology, and third world nutrition at senior undergraduate and graduate student level.

Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 16)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ulijaszek, Stanley J.

Anthropology

Cambridge University Press

Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology examines some of the ways in which measurements of energy intake, expenditure and balance have been used to study human populations by biological anthropologists and human biologists. The book provides an integration of human adaptation and adaptability approaches, placing these issues in an ecological context by considering traditional subsistence economies in the developing world. This is the first volume to present such an integrated approach, and will be useful in the teaching of biological anthropology, human population biology, nutritional anthropology, and third world nutrition at senior undergraduate and graduate student level.

While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of changing human nutrition from evolutionary and social perspectives. It considers what a 'natural' human diet might be, how it has been shaped across evolutionary time and how we have adapted to changing food availability. The transition from hunter-gatherer and the rise of agriculture through to the industrialisation and globalisation of diet are explored. Far from being adapted to a 'Stone Age' diet, humans can consume a vast range of foodstuffs. However, being able to eat anything does not mean that we should eat everything, and therefore engagement with the evolutionary underpinnings of diet and factors influencing it are key to better public health practice.

Evolving Human Nutrition: Implications for Public Health (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 64)

Elton, Sarah

Mann, Neil

Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways in which obesity and its susceptibilities are framed in science and policy and how they might work better. Providing a clear, authoritative voice on the debate, the author builds on early work to engage further in ecological and complexity thinking in obesity. Many of the models that have emerged since obesity became a population-level issue are examined, including the energy balance model, and models used to examine human body fatness from a range of perspectives including evolutionary, anthropological, environmental, and political viewpoints. The book is ideal for those working on, or interested in, obesity science, health policy, health economics, evolutionary medicine, medical sociology, nutrition and public health who want to understand the shifts that have taken place in obesity science, policy, and intervention in the past forty years.

Models of Obesity: From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 78)

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Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 16)

Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 16)

Evolving Human Nutrition: Implications for Public Health (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 64)

Models of Obesity: From Ecology to Complexity in Science and Policy (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 78)

Evolving Human Nutrition: Implications for Public Health (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, Series Number 64)