EEH Schedule

Environmental & Evolutionary Health — Class Schedule — Spring 2018
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Day	Date	Class Topic	Reading Assignment
Jan	29	Class Introduction (Procedures; Schedule; Textbook; Readings; Discussions; Research Paper & Presentation); Science as a Way of Knowing; Overview/Big Picture of Envirionmental & Evolutionary Health including concepts of Novel Environments, Evolutionary Mismatch, & Epigenetics
	31	Introduction to Environmental Health	See Moodle - Environmental Health 1
Feb	2	Introduction to Evolution	Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution - See Moodle; Introduction to the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin) (1page); Text Chapter 1
	5	Human Evolution	Text Chapters 2 and 3; Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter
	7	Why We Get Sick, Introduction to Evolutionary Health/Medicine	Text Appendix 2 (4 pages); Evolution and the Origins of Disease; Text Chapters 4, 5, & 6
	9	Why We Get Sick, Continued	The Hygiene Hypothesis (1page); Cleaning Up The Hygiene Hypothesis (now the Old Friends Hypothesis); Changing dietary trends and the obesity epidemic; Origins of Dental Crowding and Malocclusions: An Anthropological Perspective
	12	Class Discussion on Why We Get Sick
	14	Video & Discussion: Ghost in Your Genes	Super brief explanation of Epigenetics; Epigenetics 101;
	16	Genes, Epigenetics, and Health	Epigenetics in Action 1- See Moodle; Epigenetics in Action 2 - See Moodle
	19	Toxicology and Health	See Library - Environmental Health 6; Text Chapter 11; Environmental Estrogens (1page); Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped; Code Breaker - See Moodle
	21	Pest Control, Pesticides, and Health	See Library - Environmental Health 18; Trump’s Legacy: Damaged Brains;
	23	Water and Health	See Library - Environmental Health 16
	26	Air Pollution (including indoor) and Health (this lecture included on EXAM 2)	In India, Air So Dirty Your Head Hurts; see Moodle -Environmental Health 13
	28	EXAM 1
Mar	2	NO CLASS - work on RESEARCH SUMMARY topics
	5	Climate Change and Health	See Library - Environmental Health 12
	7	Discussion on Air Pollution, Climate Change, and health
	9	Occupational Health; RESEARCH SUMMARY Title, Etc. Due	See Library -Environmental Health 4
	12-16	Spring Break
	19	Occupational Health, real world examples	See Library -Environmental Health 8
	21	Occupational Health, continued	See Library -Environmental Health 21
	23	Other environmental challenges; discussion
	26	Food in the Evolutionary Context	The Celiac Surge - See Moodle; Running on Empty - See Moodle; George Diggs TEDx Talk (13 minutes)
	28	Detailed look at the modern diet ("SAD" - Standard American Diet) and the "Natural Human Diet"	Text Chapter 10; Is Sugar Killing Us? - See Moodle; Sugar Industry Long Downplayed Potential Harms; Sugar and Cancer
	30	Video & Discussion: "The Perfect Human Diet"
Apr	2	"Diets"/Discussion	Text Chapter 8
	4	“World’s Worst Foods”; "Myths"; "Why Science Sometimes Gets It Wrong"	A spoonful of sugar; The Science of Fat-Loss: Why a Calorie Isn’t Always a Calorie Text Chapter 13 & Text Appendix 1; Text Appendix 4
	6	EXAM 2
	9	Hunger & Its Controls/Discussion	Text Chapter 7, 9; Sarah Hallberg TED YouTube; A reversal on carbs....; Carbs against Cardio....; Why Fat People Don't Lose Weight(1 page)
	11	Movie: "Cereal Killers"; Native peoples & human variation; Discussion	Chapter 12; Text Appendix 3
	13	Fetal/Intrauterine, early life, multigenerational, and long-term environental influences; Wheat Belly and Grain Brain; Epigenetics & Diet; Long-term implications for your life and your family	You Can Prevent Alzheimer's; Interview of author of Wheat Belly
	16	"Diet: Summary of “Recommendations" or Science Based Natural Eating"; "Sugar -- The elephant in the kitchen": Robert Lustig Ted Talk Video; Discussion	Text Chapter 14 & Appendix 5; Paleolithic diet is so easy, cavemen actually did it; Are We Getting Nutrition All Wrong? (1 page)
	18	Movie: "Fed Up"; Discussion; RESEARCH SUMM. DUE
	20	Environment, Evolution & Human Health --- "Non-Diet Basic Recommendations (sleep, exercise, stress, vitamins, etc.)/Discussion	Exercise May Enhance the Effects of Brain Training; How Exercise May Help the Brain Grow Stronger; Exercise and bus drivers in London --- Moodle
	23	Biophilia & other Behavioral/Psychological/Mental Implications of the Modern World (Depression, etc.)	ADHA, Food Additives, & Histamine; A Conversation with E.O. Wilson; Need for Protein Makes Monkeys and Human Overeat. (1 page)
	25	Environmental Ethics, Environmental Justice; Ecosystem Services, Sustainability, and You and Me; Discussion
	27	Environmental Health in the Real World, Policy and Practice; Discussion	See Library -Environmental Health 26
May	30	Student Presentations
	2	Student Presentations
	4	Student Presentations
	8	Final Exam Tuesday, May 8, 12:00 - 2:00 pm