Title: Obesity :
Authors: Blass, Elliott M.,
Date: 2008
Publisher: Sinauer Associates,
Physical description: xx, 471 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC class: R
Contents: Critical Introduction to Obesity / Gerard P. Smith -- The Epidemiology of Obesity: Causal Roots-Routes of Cause / Viktor E. Bovbjerg -- Metabolic Influences on the Controls of Meal Size / Timothy H. Moran -- Obesity and Addiction / Roy A. Wise -- The Logic of Sensory and Hedonic Comparisons: Are the Obese Different? / Derek J. Snyder and Linda M. Bartoshuk -- Development of Eating Behavior: Immediate and Long-Term Consequences / Julie Lumeng -- Learning and Hedonic Contributions to Human Obesity / Martin R. Yeomans -- Exercise for Obesity Treatment and Prevention: Current Perspectives and Controversies / Shaun M. Filiault -- Built Environments and Obesity / Jeffery Sobal and Brian Wansink -- From Protocols to Populations: Establishing a Role for Energy Density of Food in the Obesity Epidemic / Marion M. Hetherington and Barbara J. Rolls -- Proposed Modifications to the Food Stamp Program: Likely Effects and Their Policy Implications / Conner C. Mullally, Julian M. Alston, Daniel A. Sumner, Marilyn S. Townsend and Stephen A. Vosti -- Environmental Food Messages and Childhood Obesity / Shauna Harrison, Darcy A. Thompson and Dina L. G. Borzekowski -- A Framework for the Treatment of Obesity: Early Support / Cecilia Bergh, Matthew Sabin, Julian Shield, Goran Hellers, Modjtaba Zandian, Karolina Palmberg, Barbro Olofsson, Kerstin Lindeberg, Mikael Bjornstrom and Per Sodersten -- Epilogue / Elliott M. Blass.