ANT214H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Western Pattern Diet, Saturated Fat, Cardiovascular Disease
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Lecture 3:food & adaptation - continuation lec 2. Needs, we tend to be confined to desk: h/ many hrs hunting/gathering vs work we have now, hunting tends to be men, hit or miss, way more leisure time then we do. In mediterranean --> beats have vivine in it: antioxidants, anti-inflammatory properties. Found in scientific studies to hamper tumor growth. Isoflavones: comes from soy products, weak estrogenic compounds --> means have estrogen in them. Influence endogenous sex hormone activity, cell proliferation + differentiation: both act synergistically to reduce risk of disease when eat variety of foods. H/g & chronic disease: picture, problem of paleo demography. If it was all about genetics when comes to chronic disease, then those genes will not be removed from gene pool: will have already put it on to next gen. Food & adaptation: differences in h/ effectively our bodies process particular foods.
