Understanding Obesity

Understanding Obesity

Understanding Obesity informs readers about contributing factors to obesity: from social and behavioral determinants throughout the life course, influences from before we are born to what we eat (nutrients and food contaminants which impact body weight), gut bacteria, and the way accumulated energy...

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Other Authors: Monteiro, Rosário, Martins, Maria João
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Bentham Science Publishers, 2020.
Series:Recent advances in obesity research ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Obesity.
Obesity
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Summary:Understanding Obesity informs readers about contributing factors to obesity: from social and behavioral determinants throughout the life course, influences from before we are born to what we eat (nutrients and food contaminants which impact body weight), gut bacteria, and the way accumulated energy from nutrition is spent. Chapters will also inform readers about adipose tissue (the dynamic role of the adipose tissue during obesity development, the pressure put on to its remodeling and differences in obesity phenotypes regarding association with pathological outcomes as well as the latest advan.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
The Metabolically Unhealthy Normal-weight Phenotype
Physical Description:1 online resource (499 p.).
ISBN:9811442630
9789811442636

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