Book chapter
Chapter 7 - Overweight and Obesity: The Epidemic’s Underbelly
Lifestyle Medicine, pp.105-132
Elsevier Inc, Third Edition
2017
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Abstract
Obesity is now in pandemic proportions. This accompanies, and is associated with, rises in related chronic diseases. Whether obesity is a direct causal factor for such disease, however, is not clear, thus justifying a lifestyle medicine approach to the problem. Hence, whilst a linear approach to energy balance may still be useful for individual management, a systems approach using a modified understanding of energy dynamics and including the range of determinants from proximal to distal would seem to be necessary for effectively managing the epidemic as a whole.
Details
- Title
- Chapter 7 - Overweight and Obesity: The Epidemic’s Underbelly
- Creators
- Stephan RössnerGarry Egger - Southern Cross UniversityAndrew BinnsMichael Sagner
- Publication Details
- Lifestyle Medicine, pp.105-132
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Identifiers
- 991012926969302368
- Copyright
- © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
- Academic Unit
- National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter