Purposeful Pathogens: How Pathogens Regulate the Behavior and General Quality of Human Populations

Lifestyle influences infectious disease:

This book examines the relationship between lifestyle and infectious disease. Infectious diseases are highly variable in terms of how they affect different individuals, and this book makes the case that differences in lifestyle underlie this variation. More specifically, factors such as poor diet, lack of exercise, poor sleep habits, psychological stress, and exposure to pollution are known to increase one's susceptibility to infection and to increas...