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This book examines the risk factors, challenges and health implications of obesity. Topics include the implications for behavioural solutions to weight control in the general population; obesity prevalence and socio-economic position; moral, scientific and social dimensions of the fat body; dietary approaches to obesity; and metabolic syndrome in weight management.
List of contents
Preface Walking Trail Classification: A Biomechanical Approach (Ronaldo Gabriel, Aurelio Faria, Paola Silvia Wood, Helena Moreira, Department of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, CITAB, University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, and others) The Evolutionary Inevitability of Obesity in Modern Society: Implications for Behavioral Solutions to Weight Control in the General Population (R.J. Stubbs, C. Gale, S. Whybrow, P. Gilbert, Slimming World, Alfreton, United Kingdom, and Mental Health Research Unit, Kingsway Hospital, Derby, United Kingdom, and others) Obesity: Risk Factors, Management and Social Stigmas (Gianluca Serafini, Maurizio Pompili, Marco Innamorati, Gloria Giordano, Denise Erbuto, Roberto Tatarelli, Paolo Girardi, Department of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Sensory Organs, Suicide Prevention Center, SantAndrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and others) Obesity Prevalence and Socioeconomic Position among Two Different Groups of Immigrant Women in Vienna, Austria (Sylvia Kirchengast, Maryam Singh, Esra Kilaf, Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria) Obesity Dilemmas: Narrations of the Fat Body amongst the Self-Identified Overweight and Obese (Joe Greener (Liverpool Hope University), Flora Douglas (University of Aberdeen), Edwin van Teijlingen, (Bournemouth University) Dietary Approaches to Obesity (Gal Dubnov-Raz, Elliot M. Berry, Exercise, Nutrition and Lifestyle Clinic, The Edmond and Lily Safra Childrens Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel, and others)* Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Weight Management (Jian Huang, Donna Carden, Department of Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA)* Index
