Obesity
Subtitle: causes, mechanisms, prevention, and treatment
By: edited by Elliott M. Blass.
Contributors: Blass, Elliott M., 1940-
Publisher: Sinauer Associates
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sunderland, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780878932092; 9780878930371
Subjects: Obesity -- Etiology; Obesity -- Psychological aspects; Obesity; Diet; Feeding Behavior
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Critical introduction to obesity / Gerard P. Smith; title: The epidemiology of obesity: causal roots; title: routes of cause / Viktor E. Bovbjerg; title: Metabolic influences on the controls of meal size / Timothy H. Moran; title: Obesity and addiction / Roy Wise; title: The logic of sensory and hedonic comparisons: are the obese different? / Linda Bartoshuk; title: Development of eating behavior: immediate and long term consequences / Julie Lumeng; title: Learning and hedonic contributions to human obesity / Martin R. Yeomans; title: Exercise for obesity treatment and prevention: current perspectives and controversies / Shaun M. Filiault; title: Built environments and obesity / Brian Wansink; title: From protocols to populations: establishing a role for energy density of food in the obesity epidemic / Marion M. Hetherington, Barbara J. Rolls; title: Proposed modifications to the Food Stamp Program: likely effects and their policy implications / Marilyn Townsend, Stephen A. Vosti; title: Environmental food messages and childhood obesity / Dina Borzekowski; title: A framework for the treatment of obesity: early support / Cecilia Bergh, Per Sodersten.