Overweight and obesity represent a rapidly growing threat to the health of populations in an increasing number of countries. Indeed they are now so common that they are replacing more traditional problems such as undernutrition and infectious diseases as the most significant cau…
This volume will explore the epidemiology and the basic mechanisms of each of these prenatal phenomena, in an attempt to explain the role of the prenatal environment in promoting postnatal weight gain. This information will contribute to resolving the nature-nurture controversy.…
This volume will explore the epidemiology and the basic mechanisms of each of these prenatal phenomena, in an attempt to explain the role of the prenatal environment in promoting postnatal weight gain. This information will contribute to resolving the nature-nurture controversy.…
Understanding the complex factors contributing to the growing childhood obesity epidemic is vital not only for the improved health of the world's future generations, but for the healthcare system. The impact of childhood obesity reaches beyond the individual family and into the …
Obesity prevalence in the U.S. is the highest among developed countries, a situation that calls for a nationwide understanding of this complex phenomenon. Brief yet comprehensive, The Obesity Epidemic in North America offers a much-needed examination of the effects of human evol…
The interplay between environmental chemical exposures and obesity: proceedings of a workshop
by Pool, Robert, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)., Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Interplay between Environmental Chemical Exposures and Obesity (Workshop), Research Triangle Park , N.C.)
"In March 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore the role that chemical exposures may play in the development of obesity. The obesity epidemic that has gripped the United States and much of the developed world for the past …
The interplay between environmental chemical exposures and obesity: proceedings of a workshop
by Pool, Robert, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)., Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Interplay between Environmental Chemical Exposures and Obesity (Workshop), Research Triangle Park , N.C.)
"In March 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore the role that chemical exposures may play in the development of obesity. The obesity epidemic that has gripped the United States and much of the developed world for the past …
