Obesity

30.09.2008

Englisch

9780878930371

Sinauer Associates

Nein

Elliott M. Blass

300

Taschenbuch

ELLIOTT M. BLASS, Ed. received his Ph.D. [Psychology] from the University of Virginia and his postdoctoral training [Zoology] from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and Medical School, USA. [Psychology and Psychiatry] for twenty years, during which time he was trained as a Psychiatry Resident. He taught for six years at Cornell, USA. [Psychology and Nutrition] and is now a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Behavior at the University of Massachusetts, USA. Blass is also a Research Professor in Pediatrics at The Boston University School of Medicine, USA. His research interests have focused on feeding motivation, infant nutrition, mother–infant interactions, and obesity. He has served as a Johns Simon Guggenheim Research Fellow, a Fulbright Hayes Research Professor, and an NIMH Research Scientist.

epidemiology, obesity, prevention

MBNH3 - Diätetik und Ernährung

Critical Introduction to Obesity; Gerard P. Smith.- The Epidemiology of Obesity: Causal Roots—Routes of Cause; Viktor E. Bovbjerg.- Metabolic Influences on the Controls of Meal Size; Timothy H. Moran.- Obesity and Addiction; Roy A. Wise.- The Logic of Sensory and Hedonic Comparisons: Are the Obese Different?; Derek. J. Snyder and Linda M. Bartoshuk.- Development of Eating Behavior: Immediate and Long-Term Consequences; Julie Lumeng.- Learning and Hedonic Contributions to Human Obesity; Martin R. Yeomans.- Exercise for Obesity Treatment and Prevention: Current Perspectives and Controversies; Shaun M. Filiault.- Built Environments and Obesity; Jeffery Sobal and Brian Wansink.- From Protocols to Populations: Establishing a Role for Energy Density of Food in the Obesity Epidemic; Marion M. Hetherington and Barbara J. Rolls.- Proposed Modifications to the Food Stamp Program: Likely Effects and Their Policy Implications; Conner C. Mullally, Julian M. Alston, Daniel A. Sumner, Marilyn S. Townsend and Stephen A. Vosti.- Environmental Food Messages and Childhood Obesity; Shauna Harrison, Darcy A. Thompson, and Dina L. G. Borzekowski.- A Framework for the Treatment of Obesity: Early Support; Cecilia Bergh, Matthew Sabin, Julian Shield, Göran Hellers, Modjtaba Zandian, Karolina Palmberg, Barbo Olofsson, Kerstin Lindeberg, Mikael Björnström, and Per Södersten.- Epilogue; Elliott M. Blass.

235 mm

17.5 cm