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Long-term Consequences of Early Environment

Growth, Development and the Lifespan Developmental Perspective

C. Jeya K. Henry (Oxford Brookes University) Stanley J. Ulijaszek (University of Cambridge)

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English
Cambridge University Press
06 August 2009
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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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   37
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   400g
ISBN:   9780521118217
ISBN 10:   0521118212
Series:   Society for the Study of Human Biology Symposium Series
Pages:   268
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Long-term Consequences of Early Environment: Growth, Development and the Lifespan Developmental Perspective

'… a wide-ranging volume … It is certainly a book with something for everyone and some contributions are developed at a level which should be accessible to any human biologist … This book can be recommended for its novelty and for its intrinsic interest to human biologists.' T. M. Pollard, Annals of Human Biology '… a uniquely accessible source of information on a fascinating topic'. J. D. L. Hansen, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 'The book is very well designed, planned and edited … the volume offers very stimulating reading and is a valuable source of information for students and scholars in a range of related scientific disciplines, such as bioanthropology, auxology, epidemiology, nutrition, psychology and physiology.' Elena Godina, Journal of Biosocial Science


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