From Ancient Diets to Modern Minds: The Role of Micronutrients in Brain Development and Function
暫譯: 從古代飲食到現代思維:微量營養素在大腦發展與功能中的角色

Biesalski, Hans Konrad, Russo, John

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2025-11-23
  • 售價: $2,080
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,976
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 727
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031991206
  • ISBN-13: 9783031991202
  • 相關分類: 理工類
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商品描述

This book explores the evolution of the human brain, highlighting the critical role of diet, particularly micronutrients, in shaping our cognitive development. By examining the evolutionary path of our ancestors, it sheds light on how dietary practices have influenced brain growth and function. This provides valuable insights into modern health and lifestyle choices. Thus, the book makes an essential contribution to evolutionary medicine and to our understanding of the relationship between evolution and health.

The chapters cover topics such as the importance of micronutrients in brain development in the context of evolution and cognitive development in children, mental decline in the elderly (dementia), ADHD, Hidden Hunger, and obesity. Special attention is given to the impact of environmental change on dietary evolution and the role of the hippocampus in processing sensory and ecological information. The book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between diet and cognitive health, and the author presents a strong case that nutritional quality, rather than quantity, has been a driving force in the evolution of Homo sapiens and the human brain. Nutritional quality continues to play an important role in brain development and function, as demonstrated by various examples.

Throughout the book, complex concepts are explained with simple, colorful illustrations. References to implications for modern humans complement the main content.
By exploring the links between ancient dietary practices and modern health, the book invites readers to rethink their approach to diet and lifestyle and offers practical insights for maintaining cognitive health throughout life. As such, it is intended for anyone interested in these topics, whether you are a scientist or an interested layperson.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討人類大腦的演變,強調飲食,特別是微量營養素,在塑造我們認知發展中的關鍵角色。通過檢視我們祖先的演化路徑,本書揭示了飲食習慣如何影響大腦的生長和功能。這為現代健康和生活方式選擇提供了寶貴的見解。因此,本書對於演化醫學及我們對演化與健康之間關係的理解做出了重要貢獻。

各章節涵蓋的主題包括微量營養素在演化背景下對大腦發展的重要性、兒童的認知發展、老年人的心理衰退(癡呆症)、注意力不足過動症(ADHD)、隱性飢餓以及肥胖。特別關注環境變化對飲食演變的影響,以及海馬體在處理感官和生態信息中的角色。本書提供了飲食與認知健康之間關係的新視角,作者強調營養質量而非數量,對於智人(Homo sapiens)及人類大腦的演化起到了推動作用。營養質量在大腦發展和功能中持續扮演著重要角色,這一點通過各種例子得到了證明。

在整本書中,複雜的概念以簡單且生動的插圖進行解釋。對現代人類的影響的參考補充了主要內容。通過探索古代飲食習慣與現代健康之間的聯繫,本書邀請讀者重新思考他們的飲食和生活方式,並提供實用的見解,以維持終生的認知健康。因此,本書適合任何對這些主題感興趣的人,無論您是科學家還是有興趣的外行人。

作者簡介

Prof. (emeritus) Dr. med. Hans Konrad Biesalski was head of the Institute of Biological Chemistry and Nutrition (1994-2016) as well as Director of the Food Security Center (FSC) at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany (2013-2017).

He has over 30 years' experience in research on retinoids and their actions on cellular growth and differentiation, vitamin A and human health, especially lung diseases. First, his research activities have concentrated on antioxidants and vitamins in basic and applied research on reactive oxygen species and their role in human nutrition. Since 2010, his research is related to food quality as an indicator of adequate and healthy nutrition and micronutrients in human health and disease. As the initiator of the international Hidden Hunger conferences, he has brought widespread attention to this issue.

As Principle Investigator of nutrition studies in developing countries, he studied the impact of DDT on vitamin A status in refugee camps, nutrition and food quality including RUF (ready-to-usefood) in developing countries (Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Kenia, Samoa), the impact of climate change on food quality (Collaborate Research Center University Hohenheim and Hebrew University) and the characterization of Ethiopian edible oils and its improved use in Ethiopian diets. Furthermore, he has developed IT based programs with specific scoring systems to detect malnutrition and micronutrient intake in different groups (children, pregnant women and elderly, cancer patients); the programs are used in different trials to assess the individual nutrition status and to control intervention trials.

Prof. Biesalski is a member of the editorial board of various international journals.

He edited 9 textbooks related to nutrition medicine, nutrition physiology, clinical nutrition and aging. He published more than 330 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious scientific journals dealing with nutrition, vitamins and nutrition medicine.

Prof. Biesalski is a member of different international societies and vitamin consultative groups, e.g. the WHO/FAO Expert Group Application of Nanotechnologies in the Food and Agriculture Sectors (Potential Food Safety Implications), the FAO/WHO BOND Initiative (Biomarker of Nutritional Deficiencies) and the High-Level Panel of Expert Group of the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition.

He has received various international awards, including the highly prestigious Justus von Liebig Award for World Nutrition for his commitment to the issue of hidden hunger.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

教授(名譽)醫學博士漢斯·康拉德·比薩爾斯基(Prof. (emeritus) Dr. med. Hans Konrad Biesalski)曾擔任德國斯圖加特霍亨海姆大學生物化學與營養研究所所長(1994-2016)及食品安全中心(FSC)主任(2013-2017)。

他在視黃醇及其對細胞生長和分化的作用、維生素A與人類健康,特別是肺部疾病的研究方面擁有超過30年的經驗。首先,他的研究活動集中於抗氧化劑和維生素在反應性氧物種及其在人類營養中的角色的基礎和應用研究。自2010年以來,他的研究與食品質量相關,作為適當和健康營養及微量營養素在人類健康和疾病中的指標。作為國際隱性飢餓會議的發起人,他為這一問題帶來了廣泛的關注。

作為發展中國家營養研究的主要研究者,他研究了DDT對難民營維生素A狀態的影響、發展中國家的營養和食品質量,包括即食食品(RUF),氣候變化對食品質量的影響(霍亨海姆大學與希伯來大學的合作研究中心)以及埃塞俄比亞可食用油的特徵及其在埃塞俄比亞飲食中的改進使用。此外,他還開發了基於IT的程序,具有特定的評分系統,以檢測不同群體(兒童、孕婦和老年人、癌症患者)的營養不良和微量營養素攝入;這些程序在不同的試驗中用於評估個體的營養狀態並控制干預試驗。

比薩爾斯基教授是多本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員。

他編輯了9本與營養醫學、營養生理學、臨床營養和老化相關的教科書。他在著名的科學期刊上發表了超過330篇經過同行評審的論文,涉及營養、維生素和營養醫學。

比薩爾斯基教授是不同國際學會和維生素諮詢小組的成員,例如世界衛生組織/糧農組織(WHO/FAO)納米技術在食品和農業領域應用的專家小組(潛在的食品安全影響)、糧農組織/世界衛生組織(FAO/WHO)BOND倡議(營養缺乏的生物標記)以及全球食品安全與營養論壇的高級專家小組。

他獲得了多項國際獎項,包括因其對隱性飢餓問題的承諾而獲得的極具聲望的尤斯圖斯·馮·利比希世界營養獎。