Nutrition, dental caries and periodontal disease: a narrative review

PP Hujoel, P Lingström - Journal of clinical periodontology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To provide a narrative review of the role of macro‐and micronutrients in relation to
dental caries, gingival bleeding and destructive periodontal disease. Materials & Methods …

Dietary carbohydrates: role of quality and quantity in chronic disease

DS Ludwig, FB Hu, L Tappy, J Brand-Miller - Bmj, 2018 - bmj.com
Dietary carbohydrates: role of quality and quantity in chronic disease Page 1 the bmj | BMJ
2018;361:k2340 | doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2340 1 Science and PoliticS of nutrition Dietary …

Pleistocene North African genomes link near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations

M Van de Loosdrecht, A Bouzouggar, L Humphrey… - Science, 2018 - science.org
North Africa is a key region for understanding human history, but the genetic history of its
people is largely unknown. We present genomic data from seven 15,000-year-old modern …

The evolution of the human trophic level during the Pleistocene

M Ben‐Dor, R Sirtoli, R Barkai - American journal of physical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The human trophic level (HTL) during the Pleistocene and its degree of variability serve,
explicitly or tacitly, as the basis of many explanations for human evolution, behavior, and …

Nutrition and health in human evolution–past to present

KW Alt, A Al-Ahmad, JP Woelber - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Anyone who wants to understand the biological nature of humans and their special
characteristics must look far back into evolutionary history. Today's way of life is drastically …

Beyond food: The multiple pathways for inclusion of materials into ancient dental calculus

A Radini, E Nikita, S Buckley… - American journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque) was first recognised as a potentially useful
archaeological deposit in the 1970s, though interest in human dental calculus as a resource …

Paleomedicine and the evolutionary context of medicinal plant use

K Hardy - Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia, 2021 - Springer
Modern human need for medicines is so extensive that it is thought to be a deep
evolutionary behavior. There is abundant evidence from our Paleolithic and later prehistoric …

Dental calculus reveals unique insights into food items, cooking and plant processing in prehistoric central Sudan

S Buckley, D Usai, T Jakob, A Radini, K Hardy - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Accessing information on plant consumption before the adoption of agriculture is
challenging. However, there is growing evidence for use of locally available wild plants from …

Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant

LG Simões, T Günther, RM Martínez-Sánchez… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In northwestern Africa, lifestyle transitioned from foraging to food production around 7,400
years ago but what sparked that change remains unclear. Archaeological data support …

Reproductive trade-offs in extant hunter-gatherers suggest adaptive mechanism for the Neolithic expansion

AE Page, S Viguier, M Dyble, D Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The Neolithic demographic transition remains a paradox, because it is associated with both
higher rates of population growth and increased morbidity and mortality rates. Here we …