Thinking in Circles About Obesity: Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management
From the reviews: "Systems thinking is a perspective and a set of conceptual tools that enable us to understand the structure and predict the behavior of complex systems.  While already commonplace in engineering and in business, the use of systems thinking impersonal health is less widely adopted.   Yet health is precisely the setting where dynamic complexity is most problematic and where the stakes are highest.  Thinking in Circles about Obesity: Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management, aims to fill this gap. The book applies systems thinking to personal health in a form that’s accessible to the general reader with the hope that it would have a profound influence on how ordinary people think about and manage their health and well being." BehavioralHealthCentral.com, December 30, 2009 “Commonplace in engineering and in business, the use of systems thinking in personal health is less widely adopted. … health is precisely the setting where dynamic complexity is most problematic and where the stakes are highest. Thinking in Circles About Obesity: Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management … aims to fill this gap. The book applies systems thinking to personal health in a form that’s accessible to the general reader … .” (The Systems Thinker, Vol. 20 (10), December/2009 - January/2010) “‘Thinking in Circles About Obesity’ and is by Tarek K. A. Hamid … . I first saw the book reviewed while doing a Google Fast Flip search for ‘obesity’ and was intrigued by it. …  I have a copy and read … I’m really excited by it. It’s well-researched (with about 300+ endnotes and index), written for the lay person, and explains very well both how complex weight loss is and how we can better think about it.” (Stephen Colbert, Weight Watchers, May, 2009)