Decolonizing the Diet: Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning from Early America

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Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America, "Decolonizing the Diet" shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization and cultural destruction.

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Gideon A. Mailer is associate professor in early American history at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA.

Nicola E. Hale, specializing in genetics, cell biology and biochemistry, has worked in assistant scientist positions at the University of Cambridge, UK.