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1. Introduction
2. Outline
3. Chronic diseases have complex causality (1)
4. Normal distribution for genetic susceptibility
5. Chronic diseases have complex causality (2)
6. Genes and lifestyle influence disease incidence
7. We are genetic stone-agers (1)
8. Human evolution
9. Human evolution by Gould
10. Human evolution by Wilson
11. Human evolution by Klein
12. Contemporary humans live unnaturally
13. Representative illnesses
14. Categories of genetic-lifestyle discordances
15. A partial list of discordance-related diseases
16. Representative discordance-related diseases (1)
17. Dental caries
18. Refined carbohydrate and dental health
19. Refined sugar consumption
20. Representative discordance-related diseases (2)
21. Lung cancer
22. Cigarette consumption and lung cancer
23. Tobacco consumption in USA 1890-1990
24. Lung cancer in women
25. Why do girls and boys smoke?
26. Radon and lung cancer (1)
27. Radon and lung cancer (2)
28. Radon and lung cancer (3)
29. Emphysema
30. Representative discordance-related diseases (3)
31. Hypertension prevalence has increased in USA
32. Complications of hypertension (1)
33. Complications of hypertension (2)
34. Hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes
35. Lifestyle changes for preventing hypertension (1)
36. Comparative body mass indices
37. Triceps skinfold thickness in young males
38. Female figures from the Stone Age
39. Lifestyle changes for preventing hypertension (2)
40. Sodium and potassium consumption
41. Sources of sodium in the American diet
42. Normotensive populations
43. Sodium intake and hypertension
44. Lifestyle changes for preventing hypertension (3)
45. Comparable physical activity
46. Men and women activity in hunter-gatherers
47. Lifestyle changes for preventing hypertension (4)
48. Stone-Agers did not consume alcohol
49. Lifestyle changes for preventing hypertension (5)
50. Fruit and vegetable consumption
51. Representative discordance-related diseases (4)
52. Increase in prevalence of diabetes
53. Percentage of U.S. adults with diagnosed diabetes
54. Insulin resistance syndrome
55. What is meant by insulin resistance?
56. Peoples with exceptional insulin sensitivity
57. Body composition
58. General muscular strength
59. Glucose removed from blood
60. Mean aerobic power aged matched males
61. Components of insulin resistance
62. Insulin action and body composition
63. Carbohydrate consumption
64. Apples, pears and insulin receptors (1)
65. Apples, pears and insulin receptors (2)
66. Insulin resistance: a biphasic process (1)
67. Insulin resistance: a biphasic process (2)
68. Insulinotropic foods (1)
69. Insulinotropic foods (2)
70. The Paleolithic lifestyle and disease prevention
71. Kuhnian paradigm (1)
72. Kuhnian paradigm (2)
73. Paradigms and science
74. We are genetic Stone-Agers (2)
75. Prospects

Topics Covered

• Stone Age genes and Space Age lives
• Chronic degenerative diseases
• Case illustrations: from dental caries to diabetes
• Paleolithic health promotion: deviation from the basics of ancestral life increases disease risk whilst reversion reduces it

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• Evolution and Medicine

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• Clinical Practice

Talk Citation

Eaton, S.B. (2007, October 1). The paleolithic lifestyle and prevention of chronic disease [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://hstalks.com/bs/143/.
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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. S. Boyd Eaton has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.