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Why some like it hot : food, genes, and cultural diversity / Gary Paul Nabhan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nabhan, Gary Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human population genetics.
- Food preferences.
- Ethnic groups.
- Physical Description:
- 233 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Island Press/Shearwater Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- In "Why Some Like It Hot," award-winning natural historian Gary Paul Nabhan offers a view of genes, diets, ethnicity, and place that will forever change the way readers understand human health and cultural diversity.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Ch. 1. Sailing through histories encoded in our bodies
- Ch.2.
- Searching for the ancestral diet
- Did mitochondrial eve and java man feast on the same foods?
- Ch. 3. Finding a bean for your genes and a buffer against malaria
- Ch. 4. The shaping and shipping away of mediterranean cuisines
- Ch . 5. Discovering why some don't like it hot
- Is it a matter of taste?
- Ch. 6. Dealing with migration headaches
- Should we change places, diets, or genes?
- Ch. 7. Rooting out the causes of disease
- Why diabetes is so common among desert-dwellers
- Ch. 8
- Reconnecting the health of the people with the health of the land
- How hawaiians are curing themselves.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1559634669
- OCLC:
- 54685972
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