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In a world where obesity has now reached epidemic proportions, a thorough understanding of the underlying causes of the problem is essential if society, public health initiatives and government policies are to successfully address the issue. The obesogenic environment describes all the possible influences that our environment presents which encourage overweight and obesity in individuals and populations.
Beginning with an overarching introduction to obesity and its implications for health and wellbeing, the book will move on to consider such crucial areas as eating behaviours and food environments, physical activity and the environment, the urban environment, methods, policy and future research directions. Brings together expertise from across a range of disciplines Written by a truly multidisciplinary team of international authors Presents some of the most innovative thinking in the battle against obesity
This groundbreaking book brings together for the first time the knowledge of experts with backgrounds in nutrition and dietetics, policy, epidemiology, environmental sciences, medical sciences, town planning and urban design, transport, geography and physical activity in order to offer a multidisciplinary approach to public health, suggesting new and exciting ways to shape our environment to better support healthful decisions.
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| Title of eBook: Obesogenic Environments | |
| Release Date: 06-09-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Obesogenic Environments
Chapter One
An International Perspective on Obesity and Obesogenic EnvironmentsW. Philip T. James, Rachel Jackson-Leach and Neville Rigby
1.1 Introduction: the emergence of obesity
The obesity epidemic started becoming a serious public health issue in most western societies only in the early 1980s. The problem emerged later in lower income countries as they went through the extraordinary economic and societal changes accompanying what is known as the 'nutritional transition'. Nevertheless, in countries emerging from extreme circumstances, for example, in post-war Germany or in the richer classes of poor countries, for example, Brazil, women characteristically put on weight first; then the business man's 'paunch' became an index of success. The same persists in African countries where prevailing malnutrition is accentuated by the new fear of 'slim disease' - a consequence of HIV infection. Recent studies show that in affluent societies obesity emerged in children in the early 1980s and since then has become an intense societal concern because no longer could one ignore the fact that environmental pressures must be a major factor in determining this extraordinary development.
Obesity was first highlighted as a major global concern by World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1997, preliminary work having been undertaken by the newly formed International Obesity Task Force (IOTF). In its report the full range of complications from excess weight gain were set out. The WHO acceptance of 'normal' weights for a population was based on the body mass index (BMI) method for relating weight to height, that is, weight (kg)/[[height (m)]
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