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Decolonizing the Diet
- Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning from Early America
Engelsk Paperback
Decolonizing the Diet
- Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning from Early America
Engelsk Paperback

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Decolonizing the Diet challenges the common claim that Native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in “Virgin Soils” that were biologically distinct from those in the Old World. Comparing the European transition from Paleolithic hunting and gathering with Native American subsistence strategies before and after 1492, the book offers a new way of understanding the link between biology, ecology and history. Synthesizing the latest work in the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with cutting-edge scholarship on the history of indigenous North America, Decolonizing the Diet highlights a fundamental model of human demographic destruction: human populations have been able to recover from mass epidemics within a century, whatever their genetic heritage. They fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization and cultural destruction. The history of Native America before and after 1492 clearly shows that biological immunity is contingent on historical context, not least in relation to the protection or destruction of long-evolved nutritional building blocks that underlie human immunity.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
354
ISBN-13:
9781785271588
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
178527158X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
13 sep 2019
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Anthem Press
Oplagsdato:
13 sep 2019
Forfatter(e):
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