Obesity

Obesity: epidemiology, pathophysiology, and prevention

by Bagchi, Debasis Preuss, Harry G.

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"The spread of obesity has been declared a worldwide epidemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). In fact, a new term, globesity, has been coined to describe the recent upsurge of overweight and obesity throughout the world's population. How severe is the problem? According to WHO, worldwide obesity has more than double since 1980. In 2008, 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight [1]. Of these over 200 million men and 300 million women were obese. 65% of the world's population liv…

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  • Full title :Obesity : epidemiology, pathophysiology, and prevention / edited by Debasis Bagchi, Harry G. Preuss.

Summary

"The spread of obesity has been declared a worldwide epidemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). In fact, a new term, globesity, has been coined to describe the recent upsurge of overweight and obesity throughout the world's population. How severe is the problem? According to WHO, worldwide obesity has more than double since 1980. In 2008, 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight [1]. Of these over 200 million men and 300 million women were obese. 65% of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight [1]. Furthermore, nearly 43 million children under the age of five were underweight in 2010 [1]"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.
  • Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):CRC Press
  • Place of Publication:Boca Raton
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxv, 982 p. :) : ill.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781439854259, 1439854254
  • oclc:on1228566783
  • Dewey Decimal:616.3/98

Subjects

Obésité -- Épidémiologie Obésité -- Physiopathologie Obesity -- epidemiology Obesity -- Pathophysiology

Writers

Bagchi, Debasis Preuss, Harry G.

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