David Barker Quotes in Survival of the Sickest
According to the thrifty phenotype hypothesis, fetuses that experience poor nutrition develop “thrifty” metabolisms that are much more efficient at hoarding energy. When a baby with a thrifty phenotype was born 10,000 years ago during a time of relative famine, its conservationist metabolism helped it survive. When a baby with a thrifty metabolism is born in the twenty-first century surrounded by abundant food (that is also often nutritionally poor but calorie rich), it gets fat.
David Barker Quotes in Survival of the Sickest
According to the thrifty phenotype hypothesis, fetuses that experience poor nutrition develop “thrifty” metabolisms that are much more efficient at hoarding energy. When a baby with a thrifty phenotype was born 10,000 years ago during a time of relative famine, its conservationist metabolism helped it survive. When a baby with a thrifty metabolism is born in the twenty-first century surrounded by abundant food (that is also often nutritionally poor but calorie rich), it gets fat.
