Perspective: Darwinian Applications to Nutrition-The Value of Evolutionary Insights to Teachers and Students.

ABSTRACT: Evolutionary biology informs us that the living world is a product of evolution, guided by the Darwinian mechanism of natural selection. This recognition has been fruitfully employed in a number of issues in health and nutrition sciences; however, it has not been incorporated into education. Nutrition and dietetics students generally learn very little or nothing on the subject of evolution, despite the fact that evolution is the process by which our genetically determined physiological traits and needs were shaped. In the present Perspective article, 3 examples of topics (inflammatory diseases, nutrition transition, and food intolerance) that can benefit from evolutionary information and reasoning are given, with relevant lines of research and inquiry provided throughout. It is argued that

SUBMITTER: Garnas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9526857 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature