Description
Book SynopsisHow can we work together to understand the rise of obesity and reverse its related diseases and societal impacts?Obesity is a complex condition that increases a person's risk for developing diabetes, heart disease, cancer, dementia, and other life-threatening conditions. Contrary to prevailing notions that it results solely from a person's diet and exercise failings, a predisposition to obesity is actually determined by genetics as well as by environmental and socioeconomic factors that lie beyond individual control. In Can the Obesity Crisis Be Reversed?, Dr. Rexford Ahima draws on his extensive laboratory and clinical experiences at top institutions to examine the complicated causes of obesity, as well as the most cutting-edge approaches for prevention and treatment. Ahima looks at how the rising trends of obesity and associated diseases are driving up health care costs. He also offers insight into the widespread suffering that obesity imposes and its disproportionate impacts in mino
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
1. How Do People Gain Excess Weight?
2. Why Are People Getting Heavier?
3. What Are the Consequences of Obesity?
4. What Are the Best Ways to Lose Weight?
5. How to Reverse the Obesity Crisis
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Appendix: Obesity Organizations and Resources
