Obesity Prevention

Explores the 'brain-to-society' approach to obesity prevention, focusing on an approach to addressing the obesity pandemic. This work presents the nueroscientific and the behavioral factors impacting eating habits. It identifies the challenges and suggests solutions for altering attitudes toward food on an individual and a societal level.

List of contents

Introduction and Handbook Overview: A Brain-to-Society Model of Choice and a Whole-of-Society Approach to Obesity Prevention; Part 1: From Brain to Behavior; A. Energy is Delight: Sensory and Reward Systems; B. Executive Control Systems and the Challenges They Face in the Modern World of Plenty; C. Biological Systems that Favor a Positive Energy Balance and Body Weight Increase in a World of Plently; D. Integrative and Multi-Level Models of Eating and of Energy and Body Weight Regulation; E. Individual-Level Interventions to Tap into Appropriate Brain Systems for Sustainable Behavioral Change; Part 2: From Society to Behavior: Policy and Action; A. Economy as a Core Society System Shaping Policy and Action that Determine Behavior; B. Needs and Challenges in Policy and Action to Prevent Obesity; C. Policy and Action to Shift the Drivers of Food Supply and Demand of Agriculture and the Agri-Food Value Chains in a Healthy Direction; D. Policy and Action for Creating Families, Schools, Communities and Social Networks that Support Individual Healthy Choice; E. Challenges and Possibilities for Policy and Action in Reducing the Social and Economic Growth in Health, Lifestyle and Obesity; F. Challenges and Possibilities for Broad Systems Approach to Policy and Action; Conclusion: Ways Forward for a Whole-of-Society Approach to Obesity Prevention: Promoting a Healthy, Pleasurable Lifestyle that is Biologically, Culturally, Economically and Environmentally Sustainable

Product details

• Authors: L (Ed) Et Al Dube, Laurette Dube, Laurette (MCGill Health Challenges Think Tank) Dube
• Assisted by: Antoine Bechara (Editor), Antoine (University of Southern California) Bechara (Editor), Alain Dagher (Editor), Alain (McGill University) Dagher (Editor), Adam Drewnowski (Editor), Adam (University of Washington) Drewnowski (Editor), Philip James (Editor), Philip (International Obesity Taskforce) James (Editor), Jordan LeBel (Editor), Jordan (Concordia University) LeBel (Editor), Rickey Y. Yada (Editor), Rickey Y. (Advanced Foods and Materials Network Yada (Editor)
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.07.2010, delayed
• EAN: 9780123743879
• ISBN: 978-0-12-374387-9
• No. of pages: 832
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Medical professions