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Obesity / by Kelly, Evelyn B.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Overview and background information. Obesity: a perfect and costly epidemic ; Obesity battles throughout the ages ; What is fat? ; How is body fat made and stored? ; The psychological and social aspects of obesity ; Introduction to genetics ; Genetic disorders that can lead obesity ; Obesity and health problems ; Obesity, exercise, and energy -- Issues and controversies. Is obesity a disease? ; Are we creating generations of couch potatoes? ; The great diet debate ; Can behavioral strategies result in weight loss? ; Should surgery be used as a weight-control method? ; What should be the government's role in the obesity crisis? ; Weight-loss medications: is there a miracle pill? ; How to avoid food scams and fad diets ; Alternative and complementary obesity therapies ; Can people be healthy at any size? ; Can there be a fat-free future? -- Scenarios. Case illustrations."This book explores what obesity is, its causes and implications for health, and the many issues and controversies surrounding it, both in the medical community and within society as a whole." - Amazon.com
Subjects: Obesity.; Obesity.;
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Obesity / by Engdahl, Sylvia,editor.;
"Opposing Viewpoints: Obesity: Opposing Viewpoints is the leading source for libraries and classrooms in need of current-issue materials. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected sources and publications"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215) and index.
Subjects: Obesity.;
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Obesity : your questions answered / by Selby, Christine L. B.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What is BMI, and how is it measured? -- What are the different BMI classifications, and how many Americans fall into each one? -- What is binge eating disorder (BED)? -- What is yo-yo dieting? -- What is metabolic syndrome? -- What are the "thin-ideal" and the "muscular-ideal"? -- What is anti-fat bias? -- What is the fat acceptance movement and Health at Every Size®? -- What lifestyle factors can contribute to obesity? -- What part does genetics play in whether or not someone is obese? -- Are there other biological factors that contribute to obesity? -- How can repeated dieting impact an individual's weight? -- How can socioeconomic status affect weight? -- How does race/ethnicity affect weight? -- How does age affect weight? -- How does food availability affect weight? -- Whate role do medications play in an individual's weight? -- What medical conditions might affect someone's weight? -- Do obese people lack willpower? -- What diseases are linked to obesity? -- What mental health issues are linked to obesity? -- How does obesity affect one's relationships with family and friends? -- What are the costs to society at large due to obesity? -- Do insurance companies change healthcare coverage depending on whether or not someone is obese? -- Do obese people live shorter lives? -- What lifestyle changes can someone make who is obese? -- What types of counseling or psychotherapy are used to treat obesity? -- How effective is counseling or psychotherapy in treating obesity? -- What types of medications are used to treat obesity? -- How effective are weight-loss medications? -- What are the different types of weight-loss or bariatric surgery? -- How effective is bariatric surgery? -- Should someone who is obese pursue treatment of their obesity if they are not experiencing any adverse health effects? -- What effect do anti-fat bias and discrimination have on the emotional health of an obese individual? -- How do anti-fat bias and discrimination affect the healthcare of obese individuals? -- What effect do anti-fat bias and discrimination have on children's academic performance? -- What effect do governmental programs and campaigns have on obesity? -- What responsibility do public services have to to accommodate people who are obese? -- What effect do weight-loss related television reality shows have on obesity? -- How are schools addressing obesity and the bullying of obese children? -- Does pursuing the culturally expected body type affect obesity? -- What effect do "love your body" campaigns have on obesity? -- Should obestiy be considered a disease? -- Case studies.This book serves as an accessible resource for teens who want to learn more about obesity. The information and guidance it offers makes it a valuable tool for young adult readers with questions or concerns about their weight.
Subjects: Obesity; Body weight; Obesity; Self-care, Health; Obesity.;
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Obesity : cultural and biocultural perspectives / by Brewis, Alexandra A.,1965-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-200) and index.Introduction: the problem with obesity -- Defining obesity -- Obesity and human adaptation -- The distribution of risk -- Culture and body ideals -- Big-body symbolism, meanings, and norms -- Conclusion: the big picture."In a world filled with more people who are overweight than underweight, public health and medical perspectives paint obesity as a catastrophic epidemic that threatens to overwhelm health systems and undermine life expectancies globally. In many societies, being obese creates profound personal suffering because it is so culturally stigmatized. yet despite loud messages about the health and social costs of obesity, weight gain is a seemingly universal aspect of the modern human condition. Grounded in a holistic anthropological approach and using a range of ethnographic and ecological case studies, 'Obesity' shows that the human tendency to become and stay fat makes perfect sense in terms of evolved human inclinations and the physical and social realities of modern life. Drawing on her own fieldwork in the rural United States, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands, the author addresses such critical questions as why obesity is defined as a problem and why some groups are more at risk than others. She suggests innovative ways in which anthropology and other social sciences can use community-based research to address the serious public health and social justice concerns provoked by the global spread of obesity."-- BACK COVER
Subjects: Obesity; Medical anthropology.; Obesity.; Body Image.; Cross-Cultural Comparison.; Health Behavior.;
© c2011., Rutgers University Press,
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The fat studies reader / by Rothblum, Esther D.; Solovay, Sondra,1970-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Obesity; Overweight persons.; Obesity.;
© c2009., New York Unviersity Press,
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The obesity epidemic : why diets and exercise don't work -- and what does / by Toomath, Robyn.; Toomath, Robyn.Fat science.;
In a world where charlatans promise to fix the alarming obesity epidemic with a silver-bullet diet or trendy new exercise program, Robyn Toomath, a physician and realist, steps out of the fray to deliver some tough news: it's really hard to lose weight. Dispelling common myths and telling provocative truths about weight gain--and loss--The Obesity Epidemic is an engaging investigation into the complicated factors that lead to obesity. While genes certainly play a part, Toomath argues, more people are fat than ever before because most of us consume significantly more calories than we did 30 years ago. But why? The answer, she asserts, is the commodification of food created by junk food advertising coupled with urbanization, globalization, and trade agreements. And while government, advertisers, gyms, and the weight loss industry keep pushing solutions that science shows do not work--from extreme exercise regimens and fad dieting to prohibitively expensive surgeries, pills, and misguided education campaigns--Toomath outlines what just might make a difference in terms of helping people truly control their weight. Drawing on the latest research and her twenty years of working with overweight patients, Dr. Toomath argues that even strongly determined people who are offered appealing incentives typically cannot lose weight permanently. Instead of demonizing people by treating weight as an issue of personal or even moral responsibility, Dr. Toomath makes it clear that nothing will change until we make it easy, not all but impossible, for people to eat healthily. Raising important questions about obesity, Toomath sidesteps the standard sound bites and puts an end to the myth of personal responsibility for body size by focusing on the environment all around us.--Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index.Part 1: We all want to be thin. Why aren't we? Does dieting work? ; Is exercise the answer? ; Can drugs or surgery make us thin? ; Is fatness inherited? -- Part 2: Why our modern world makes us fat. How new ways of living have led to new ways of eating ; How the economies of food puts more of it on our plates ; How we're sold on junk food ; How the overweight are stigmatized -- Part 3: What we can do about it. How governments can flick the switch -- Conclusion: Rise up! -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Obesity; Obesity; Obesity; Food industry and trade; Obesity.; Weight loss.; Obesity;
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Obesity and the economics of prevention : fit not fat / by Sassi, F.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.; World Health Organization.;
Includes bibliographical references.Introduction : obesity and the economics of prevention -- Promoting health and fighting chronic diseases : what impact on the economy? / by Marc Suhrcke -- Obesity : past and projected future trends -- The social dimensions of obesity -- The size and risks of the international epidemic of child obesity / by Tim Lobstein -- How does obesity spread? -- Are health behaviors driven by information? / by Donald Kenkel -- Tackling obesity : the roles of governments and markets -- Community interventions for the prevention of obesity / by Francesco Branca -- The impact of interventions -- Regulation of food advertising to children : the UK experience / by Jonathan Porter -- The case for self-regulation in food advertising / by Stephan Loerke -- Information, incentives and choice : a viable approach to preventing obesity.Before 1980, [obesity] rates were generally well below 10%. They have since doubled or tripled in many countries, and in almost half of the OECD, 50% or more of the population is overweight. A key risk factor for numerous chronic diseases, obesity is a major public health concern. This book contributes to evidence-based policy making by exploring multiple dimensions of the obesity problem. It examines the scale and characteristics of the epidemic, the respective roles and influence of market forces and governments, and the impact of interventions. It outlines an economic approach to the prevention of chronic diseases that provides novel insights relative to a more traditional public health approach. The analysis was undertaken by the OECD, partly in collaboration with the World Health Organization.--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Obesity; Obesity; Obesity; Obesity;
© c2010., OECD,
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Obesity among poor Americans : is public assistance the problem? / by Smith, Patricia K.(Patricia Kay),1959-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-186) and index.Trends in obesity, poverty, and public assistance -- The "public assistance causes obesity" hypothesis -- The "obesity causes public assistance" hypothesis -- The "poverty causes both public assistance and obesity" hypothesis -- The "factor X causes both obesity and welfare" hypothesis.
Subjects: Obesity; Obesity; Poverty; Public welfare;
© c2009., Vanderbilt University Press,
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What's wrong with fat? / by Saguy, Abigail Cope,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-248) and index.Problem frames -- Blame frames -- Fashioning frames -- Frames' effects."Abigail Saguy argues that these fraught and frantic debates obscure a more important question: How has fatness come to be understood as a public health crisis at all? Why, she asks, has the view of 'fat' as a problem-a symptom of immorality, a medical pathology, a public health epidemic-come to dominate more positive framings of weight-as consistent with health, beauty, or a legitimate rights claim-in public discourse? Why are heavy individuals singled out for blame? And what are the consequences of understanding weight in these ways? What's Wrong with Fat? presents each of the various ways in which fat is understood in America today, examining the implications of understanding fatness as a health risk, disease, and epidemic, and revealing why we've come to understand the issue in these terms, despite considerable scientific uncertainty and debate. Saguy shows how debates over the relationship between body size and health risk take place within a larger, though often invisible, contest over whether we should understand fatness as obesity at all. Moreover, she reveals that public discussions of the "obesity crisis" do more harm than good, leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses." -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Obesity; Obesity; Body Image.; Women.; Obesity;
© [2013], Oxford University Press,
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Childhood obesity in America : biography of an epidemic / by Dawes, Laura,1976-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-294) and index.Measurement and diagnosis. How big is normal ? : Quantifying children's body size ; Measuring up : Height-weight standards and diagnosis ; Sugar, spice, frogs, snails : The composition of the fat child ; Insides made easy : Measuring and diagnosing obesity using body composition -- Causes and treatments. Something wrong inside : Childhood obesity as a biological fault, and the hope for a drug treatment ; The enduring promise : The continued search for a pharmaceutical remedy ; Feeling fat : Emotions and family as factors in childhood obesity ; Kalorie Kids : Energy balance and the turn to child responsibility ; Summer slimming : Fat camps as a diet-and-exercise obesity treatment -- Epidemic. Bigger bodies in a broken world : Television and the epidemic of childhood obesity ; Fat kids go to court : Legal action as public health response to childhood obesity."A century ago, a plump child was considered a healthy child. No longer. An overweight child is now known to be at risk for maladies ranging from asthma to cardiovascular disease, and obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Childhood Obesity in America traces the changes in diagnosis and treatment, as well as popular understanding, of the most serious public health problem facing American children today. Excess weight was once thought to be something children outgrew, or even a safeguard against infectious disease. But by the mid-twentieth century, researchers recognized early obesity as an indicator of lifelong troubles. Debates about its causes and proper treatment multiplied. Over the century, fat children were injected with animal glands, psychoanalyzed, given amphetamines, and sent to fat camp. In recent decades, an emphasis on taking personal responsibility for one's health, combined with commercial interests, has affected the way the public health establishment has responded to childhood obesity--and the stigma fat children face. At variance with this personal emphasis is the realization that societal factors, including fast food, unsafe neighborhoods, and marketing targeted at children, are strongly implicated in weight gain. Activists and the courts are the most recent players in the obesity epidemic's biography. Today, obesity in this age group is seen as a complex condition, with metabolic, endocrine, genetic, psychological, and social elements. Laura Dawes makes a powerful case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective health policy." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects: Obesity in children; Overweight children; Nutrition policy; Health promotion;
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