| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Salient Features on Child Obesity from the Viewpoint of a Nutritionist -- Developmental Trajectories of Weight Status in Childhood and Adolescence -- Nursing Perspective on Childhood Obesity -- Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes -- Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in US Youth -- Childhood Obesity: Exercise Physiologists' Perspective -- Childhood Obesity: Exercise Physiologists' Perspective -- A Prospective View: Child Obesity Starts From the Mother's Womb -- The Social, Cultural, and Familial Contexts Contributing to Childhood Obesity -- Cardiovascular Risk Clustering in Obese Children -- A Link Between Maternal and Childhood Obesity -- Pathways Leading to Child Obesity: An Overview -- Sleep and Obesity in Children and Adolescents -- Children Obesity, Glucose Tolerance, Ghrelin, and Prader Willi Syndrome -- Insulin Resistance in Pediatric Obesity--Physiological Effects and Possible Diet Treatment -- Role of Peptides, Biogenic Amines and Hypothalamic Drive in Dietary-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome -- Childhood Obesity: Can Public Policy Make a Difference? -- Bone Health in Obesity and the Cross Talk Between Fat and Bone -- Bone Health in Obesity and the Cross Talk Between Fat and Bone -- Childhood Obesity: Factors, Consequences and Intervention -- Parks and Recreation: Centers for Eating and Physical Activity Behavior Interventions -- A Community-Level Perspective for Childhood Obesity Prevention -- Strategies for Prevention of Childhood Obesity -- School-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions Show Promising Improvements in the Health and Academic Achievements Among Ethnically Diverse Young Children -- School and Community-Based Physical Education and Healthy Active Living Programs: Holistic Practices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States -- Schools as "Laboratories" for Obesity Prevention: Proven Effective Models -- Psychotherapy as an Intervention for Child Obesity -- Childhood Obesity and Diabetes: Role of Probiotics and Prebiotics -- Therapeutic Treatment for Controlling Childhood Obesity -- Treatment of Pediatric Obesity: Past and Present Approaches to Diet and Exercise -- Childhood Obesity, Food Choice, and Market Influence -- The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity -- The Future Directions of Childhood Obesity and Clinical Management -- Childhood Obesity: Health Policies and Interventions |
| Summary |
This second edition of 'Global perspectives on childhood obesity' examines the current childhood obesity epidemic, outlines the consequences of this crisis, and develops strategies to forestall and prevent it. It provides a thorough investigation of the causes of childhood obesity and, more importantly, offers specific prevention strategies that can be used by medical and mental health professionals, policymakers, community organizers, and individuals. New chapters on BMI and cardiovascular disease, exercise, neurotransmitters, neurocognition, nutrigenomics and combined prevention strategies are included, making this a solid introduction on the childhood obesity crisis. Researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in public health, health policy, and health economics, as well those working in medicine, pharmacy, nutrition, school health, physiology, and neuroscience related to obesity will find this to be a comprehensive resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Obesity in children.
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Obesity in children -- Prevention
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World health.
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Pediatric Obesity
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Global Health
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MEDICAL -- Gynecology & Obstetrics.
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World health
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Obesity in children
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Obesity in children -- Prevention
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bagchi, Debasis, 1954- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780128128411 |
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0128128410 |
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9780128128404 |
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0128128402 |
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