Human beings growing‐up in adverse biocultural environments, including undernutrition, exposure to infection, economic oppression/poverty, heavy workloads, high altitude, war …
In developing nations, obesity has increased dramatically in the last decade, but a high prevalence of stunting still coexists. The intergenerational influences hypothesis (IIH) is one …
BERGEL SANCHIS, María Laura; CESANI, María Florencia and OYHENART, Evelia Edith. Malnutrición infantil e inseguridad alimentaria como expresión de las condiciones socio …
R Said-Mohamed, JY Bernard, AC Ndzana… - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Recent studies suggest that early modifications in metabolic pathways and behaviour, leading to energy conservation and reduced linear growth, could represent …
Z Hochberg - European journal of endocrinology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
This review attempts to use evolutionary life-history theory in understanding child growth in a broad evolutionary perspective. It uses the data and theory of evolutionary predictive …
Summary The Body Mass Index (BMI) was developed to estimate the risk for overweight in large samples of people from the wealthy, heavily industrialized nations of Western Europe …
Globalization is, in part, an economic force to bring about a closer integration of national economies. Globalization is also a biological, social and ideological process of change …
Working with principles from the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology (evo- devo), this fascinating work offers a new approach to analyzing child growth and …
The Maya are the most populous and shortest in stature Native American ethnic group. The Maya provide us a good opportunity to study the dietetic characteristics of a group who …