Long-term Consequences of Early Environment: Growth, Development and the Lifespan Developmental Perspective (Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series)

ISBN 10: 0521118212 / ISBN 13: 9780521118217

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2009

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• Title: Long-term Consequences of Early Environment: Growth, Development and the Lifespan Developmental Perspective (Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521118212
• ISBN 13: 9780521118217
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The early environment in which we grow up has profound, long lasting, and often irreversible consequences for us throughout our lives. Stresses due to undernutrition 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 serious implications in adulthood. While 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 recently become a focus of intense study. In this volume, leading researchers in nutrition, epidemiology, human biology, anthropology and physiology bring together a uniquely accessible source of information on this fascinating topic.

Book Description

The early environment in which we grow up has profound long lasting, and often irreversible consequences for us throughout our lives. For example, 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. Here, leading researchers from many areas of biology and anthropology bring together a uniquely accessible source of information on this fascinating topic.