A few background links on the global decline in human health following the transition to agriculture around 10 kya:

Post-pleistocene human evolution: bioarchaeology of the agricultural transition http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/icaes/conferences/wburg/poste...

The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html

Health versus fitness: competing themes in the origins and spread of agriculture? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20642145

On the Early Holocene: Foraging to Early Agriculture https://depot.erudit.org/bitstream/002029dd/1/CIRPEE05-02.pd...