Weight change : patterns, risks, and psychosocial effects

Weight change : patterns, risks, and psychosocial effects / Camilo Gouveia and Diego Melo, editors.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gouveia, Camilo, Melo, Diego
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Nova Biomedical Books, [2012]
Series:Public health in the 21st century series.
Subjects:
Body weight > Regulation.
Obesity.
Weight loss.
Body weight > Regulation
Obesity
Weight loss
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Table of Contents:
  • WEIGHT CHANGEPATTERNS, RISKS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL EFFECTS; PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY; WEIGHT CHANGEPATTERNS, RISKS AND PSYCHOSOCIALEFFECTS; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1. Out-of-Home Eating and Weight Gain; Abstract; Introduction; Associated Factors with the Habit of Eating Out of Home; The Growing Number of Women in the Labor Force and Working Out of Home; Time Scarcity; Increases in Household Income and Dual-Income Households; Changes in Household Composition; Urbanization, Industrialization and Globalization; Marketing; Food Costs.
  • Consumers' CharacteristicsCharacteristics of Food Consumed Away From Home and Mechanisms Associated with Excessive Weight Gain; Results From Studies: Food Away From Home and Weight Gain; Recommendations to Promote Healthy Eating Out; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 2. Effects of Structured Exercise on Non-Structured Physical Activity and Food Intake: Can Compensation Limit Weight Loss?; Abstract; Introduction; 1. Acute and Short Term EI Compensatory Response Following Structured Physical Activity Energy Expenditure; 1.1. Sedentary Women and Men; 1.2. Lean and Obese Women and Men.
  • 1.3. Intensity of the Exercise1.4. Cognitive Factors; 1.5. Limitation of Food Intake Measurement; 1.6. Summary for the Short and Acute Effects of Exercise on EI; 2. Acute and Short Term Non-Structured Physical Activity Compensatory Response to Structured Physical Activity Energy Expenditure; 3. Medium and Long Term EI Compensatory Responses to Structured Physical Activity Energy Expenditure; 3.1. Women and Men; 3.2. Lean and Obese; 3.3. Cognitive Factors; 3.4. Summary for the Medium and Long Effects of Structured Physical Activity Energy Expenditure on Energy Intake.
  • 4. Medium and Long Term Non-Structured Physical Activity Compensatory Response to Structured Physical Activity Energy Expenditure4.1. Structured Physical Activity Energy Expenditure and Decreased Non-Structured Physical Activity; 4.2. Structured Physical Activity Energy Expenditure and Increased Non-Structured Physical Activity; 4.3. Summary for the Medium and Long Effects of Structured Physical Activity Energy Expenditure on EE; Conclusion; References; CHAPTER 3. Calories and their Role in Weight Gain/Loss; Abstract; Introduction; Excess of Calorie Intake: Obesity.
  • Metabolic Complications of ObesityDiet Composition X Metabolism; Strategies for Weight Loss; Endocrine Alterations in Response to Calorie Restriction in Humans; Final Considerations; References; CHAPTER 4. Weight Gain in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Risks, Cardiovascular Outcome and Management; Abstract; Introduction; Obesity; Weight Gain after Kidney Transplantation; Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease; Immunosuppressive Drugs and Cardiovascular Risk; Complications Related to Obesity; Management of Obesity in Recipients; Conclusion; References.

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