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by Lee Goldman

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The dean of Columbia University's medical school explains why our bodies are out of sync with today's environment and how we can correct this to save our health.

Over the past 200 years, human life-expectancy has approximately doubled. Yet we face soaring worldwide rates of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, mental illness, heart disease, and stroke. In his fascinating new book, Dr. Lee Goldman presents a radical explanation: The key protective traits that once ensured our species' survival are now the leading global causes of illness and death.

Our capacity to store food, for example, lures us into overeating, and a clotting system designed to protect us from bleeding to death now directly contributes to heart attacks and strokes. A deeply compelling narrative that puts a new spin on evolutionary biology, Too Much of a Good Thing also provides a roadmap for getting back in sync with the modern world.

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  • Title Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us
  • Author Lee Goldman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition..
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown Spark, New York, New York
  • Publication date 2015-12
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780316236812 / 0316236810
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.2 in (23.88 x 16.00 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Health & Fitness
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Health, Human physiology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015937505
  • Dewey Decimal Code 576.8

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  • Booklist, 12/15/2015, Page 8
  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2016, Page 98

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Dr. Lee Goldman is dean of the medical school at Columbia University. An internationally renowned cardiologist, he developed the Goldman Criteria (a set of guidelines for healthcare professionals to determine which patients with chest pain require hospital admission) and the Goldman Index (which predicts which patients will have heart problems after surgery). He's the author of more than 480 medical articles and also the lead editor of Goldman-Cecil Medicine, the oldest continuously published medical textbook in the U.S.
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