"Adiposity: Epidemiology and Treatment Modalities" ed. by Jan Oxholm Gordeladze

This book is the first in a series of two, featuring the "Adiposity: Epidemiology and Treatment Modalities", serving as a summary of the traditional views on how the organ systems are affected when higher organs start to suffer from enhanced body weight, where most of this additional weight consists of white adipose tissue (WAT).

The understanding of the "epidemiology" of obesity will consequently enable clinicians and researchers to better understand the untoward "trends" of "metabolic aberrations" from a well-organized and health-bringing homeostasis, with fully responding WAT and BAT, thus enabling a balance between fat-producing and fat-metabolizing tissues for the benefit of the various organ systems taking care of the fat and carbohydrate metabolism, normally yielding a balanced energy turnover, ensuring "healthy" cell phenotypes, which optimally coordinate the energy metabolism in a well-functioning organism throughout a lifetime.


Contents
Preface
1 Introductory Chapter: Obesity – A Worldwide Problem
2 Obesity as a Growing Public Health Problem
3 Lay Theories of Obesity: Causes and Consequences
4 Network Analysis of Obesity Expression Data
5 The Brain, the Environment, and Human Obesity: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Difficulty with Maintaining Long-Term Weight Loss
6 Epidemiology of Abdominal Obesity
7 Childhood Obesity
8 Multimodal Lifestyle Intervention: Outlines and Outcomes
9 Physical Activity and Obesity in Adults
10 Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Obese Pediatric Population: Relation to Serum Leptin Concentrations
11 Dietary and Hormonal Factors Involved in Healthy or Unhealthy Visceral Adipose Tissue Expansion
12 Nutrition Labelling: Educational Tool for Reducing Risks of Obesity-Related Non-communicable Diseases
13 New Potential Beta-3 Adrenergic Agonists with Beta- Phenylethylamine Structure, Synthesized for the Treatment of Dyslipidemia and Obesity