Western Diseases

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Diseases Characteristic of Modern Western Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages xv-xv

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   2. The Emergence of a Concept

      • Denis P. Burkitt

      Pages 1-13

   3. Western Diseases and What They Encompass

      • Denis P. Burkitt

      Pages 15-27

3. The Causes of Western Disease

   1. Front Matter

      Pages N1-N1

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   2. Diet-Related Disease Patterns in South African Interethnic Populations

      • Alexander R. P. Walker, Demetre Labadarios, Ingrid I. Glatthaar

      Pages 29-66

   3. Diet and Chronic Degenerative Diseases

      • T. Colin Campbell, Junshi Chen

      Pages 67-118

   4. The Dietary Causes of Degenerative Diseases

      • T. Colin Campbell

      Pages 119-152

   5. Diet and Western Disease

      • Norman J. Temple

      Pages 153-185

   6. Dietary Fiber

      • K. W. Heaton

      Pages 187-208

   7. Vitamins and Minerals in Cancer, Hypertension, and Other Diseases

      • Norman J. Temple

      Pages 209-235

4. The Possibility of Disease Reversibility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages N3-N3

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   2. Reversing Coronary Heart Disease

      • Hans Diehl

      Pages 237-316

   3. The Reversibility of Obesity, Diabetes, Hyperlipidemia, and Coronary Heart Disease

      • James W. Anderson, Abayomi O. Akanji

      Pages 317-348

   4. The Therapeutic and Preventive Potential of the Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle

      • Kerin O’Dea

      Pages 349-380

5. Practical Means to Prevent Western Disease

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Organized Medicine

      • Norman J. Temple

      Pages 381-398

   3. Changes for Health

      • Marjorie Gott

      Pages 399-417

6. Medical Research

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Medical Research

      • Norman J. Temple

      Pages 419-436

Sir Richard Doll, FRS, FRCP ICRF Cancer Research Studies Unit Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK The twentieth century has seen few changes more remarkable than the improvement in health that has occurred nearly everywhere, most spectacularly in the economically developed countries. In these countries improved nutrition, better housing, the control ofinfection, smaller family sizes, and higher standards of education have brought about a situation in which more than 97% of all liveborn children can expect to survive the first half ofthe three score years and ten that formerly was regarded as the allotted span oflife. From then on, however, the position is less satisfactory. Some improvement has occurred; but the proportion of survivors who die prematurely, that is under 70 years of age, varies from 25% to over 50% in men and from 13% to 28% in women, the extremes in both sexes being recorded, respectively, in Japan and Hungary. Most of these deaths under 70 years of age must now be called premature, even in Japan. For most of them are not the result of any inevitable aging process, but instead are the consequences of diseases (or types of trauma) that have lower-often much lower-age-specific incidence rates in many of the least developed countries.

• Public Health
• Vitamin
• cancer
• children
• diabetes
• fat
• food
• health
• medicine
• nutrition
• obesity
• prevention

...highly readable and even entertaining...provide(s) much useful and insightful information on the role of diet in human health and disease. - New England Journal of Medicine

• Faculty of Science, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada

  Norman J. Temple

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