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Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania
Conventional wisdom holds that a decline in oral health accompanies the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, given increased consumption of carbohydrates. This widely touted example of the mismatch between our biology and modern lifestyle has been intuited largely from the bioarchae...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28296885 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172197 |
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author | Crittenden, Alyssa N. Sorrentino, John Moonie, Sheniz A. Peterson, Mika Mabulla, Audax Ungar, Peter S. |
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description | Conventional wisdom holds that a decline in oral health accompanies the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, given increased consumption of carbohydrates. This widely touted example of the mismatch between our biology and modern lifestyle has been intuited largely from the bioarchaeological record of the Neolithic Revolution in the New World. Recent studies of other populations have, however, challenged the universality of this assertion. Here, we present the first comprehensive study of oral health among a living population in transition from the bush to village life, the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania, to test the hypothesis that the shift from foraging to farming, or agricultural intensification, inevitably leads to increased periodontal disease, caries, and orthodontic disorders. Our results showed that women living in villages consuming a mostly agricultural diet exhibited more caries and periodontal disease than those living in the bush consuming a mostly wild-food diet. Furthermore, men living in the bush consuming mostly a wild-food diet had more than those living in the village consuming a mostly agricultural diet. These findings are explained by the high incidence of maize consumption in village settings, along with previously recognized variation in rate of caries between men and women. The unexpected discovery of high caries incidences for men in the bush is likely explained by heavy reliance on honey, and perhaps differential access to tobacco and marijuana. These data support the notions that mechanisms of cariogenesis are multifactorial and that the relationships between oral health and the shift from a predominantly wild-food diet to one dominated by cultigens are nuanced. |
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spelling | pubmed-53518332017-04-06 Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania Crittenden, Alyssa N. Sorrentino, John Moonie, Sheniz A. Peterson, Mika Mabulla, Audax Ungar, Peter S. PLoS One Research Article Conventional wisdom holds that a decline in oral health accompanies the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, given increased consumption of carbohydrates. This widely touted example of the mismatch between our biology and modern lifestyle has been intuited largely from the bioarchaeological record of the Neolithic Revolution in the New World. Recent studies of other populations have, however, challenged the universality of this assertion. Here, we present the first comprehensive study of oral health among a living population in transition from the bush to village life, the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania, to test the hypothesis that the shift from foraging to farming, or agricultural intensification, inevitably leads to increased periodontal disease, caries, and orthodontic disorders. Our results showed that women living in villages consuming a mostly agricultural diet exhibited more caries and periodontal disease than those living in the bush consuming a mostly wild-food diet. Furthermore, men living in the bush consuming mostly a wild-food diet had more than those living in the village consuming a mostly agricultural diet. These findings are explained by the high incidence of maize consumption in village settings, along with previously recognized variation in rate of caries between men and women. The unexpected discovery of high caries incidences for men in the bush is likely explained by heavy reliance on honey, and perhaps differential access to tobacco and marijuana. These data support the notions that mechanisms of cariogenesis are multifactorial and that the relationships between oral health and the shift from a predominantly wild-food diet to one dominated by cultigens are nuanced. Public Library of Science 2017-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5351833/ /pubmed/28296885 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172197 Text en © 2017 Crittenden et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Crittenden, Alyssa N. Sorrentino, John Moonie, Sheniz A. Peterson, Mika Mabulla, Audax Ungar, Peter S. Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania |
title | Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania |
title_full | Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania |
title_fullStr | Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania |
title_full_unstemmed | Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania |
title_short | Oral health in transition: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania |
title_sort | oral health in transition: the hadza foragers of tanzania |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28296885 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172197 |
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