Long-term Consequences of Early Environment : Growth, Development and the Lifespan Developmental Perspective Paperback / softback
Edited by C. Jeya K. (Oxford Brookes University) Henry, Stanley J. (University of Cambridge) Ulijaszek
Part of the Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
The early environment in which we grow up has profound, long lasting, and often irreversible consequences for us throughout our lives.
Stresses due to under nutrition in early childhood can mean that in adulthood individuals are smaller, more prone to disease, and have a shorter life expectancy than those with normal diets.
Disease and poor living conditions in infancy and childhood also have profound implications in adulthood.
Whilst environmental effects on human growth and development are well documented, the long-term consequences due to processes taking place at the early stages of growth and development have only in past years become a focus of intense study.
In this volume, first published in 1996, leading researchers in nutrition, epidemiology, human biology, anthropology and physiology bring together a uniquely accessible source of information on this fascinating topic.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/08/2009
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- ISBN:9780521118217
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:268 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:06/08/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521118217
