Nutrition and Health
Volume 7 / 2013
Book Series
Volume 7 / 2013
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Nutrition in the twentieth century was mainly concerned with the individual substances found in food. At the same time it became firmly established that the disease pattern seen across the Western world is a d...
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Obesity is a serious worldwide problem that is increasing in prevalence. Obesity results from increased energy intake from food exceeding what is needed for daily energy expenditure over a considerable period ...
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Nutrition plays a key role, whether we know it or not, in everyone’s life and is a key element in health and well-being. This book is intended to provide the basic information needed by physicians and members ...
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Research studies over the last several decades convincingly demonstrate that the disease pattern seen across the Western world is a direct result of lifestyle and that diet plays a major role in this. This inf...
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The concept of a Mediterranean diet can be attributed to Ancel Keys. His insights began the study of this dietary pattern and its many variations. Components of the Mediterranean diet have been described and c...
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Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, stigmatized disease process that is increasing in prevalence, affecting both adults and children. It is the result of a small positive energy imbalance from too much food or to...
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Obesity is a heterogeneous condition and distinct adiposity subtypes may differentially affect type 2 diabetes risk. We assessed relations between genetically determined subtypes of adiposity and changes in gl...
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A common variant of the melatonin receptor 1B (MTNR1B) gene has been related to increased signaling of melatonin, a hormone previously associated with body fatness mainly through effects on energy metabolism. We ...
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We examined associations between body weight and plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration (25OHD) in prediabetes and sought to estimate the impact of adiposity on these associations.
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Current theories regarding the role of diet in human obesity have evolved around the macronutrient composition of diet and its effect on weight maintenance. Obesity is the result of long-term positive energy b...
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This chapter provides physicians with guide to current and potential drugs used for the treatment of obesity, excluding agents being developed based on molecular technologies. The molecular basis of obesity is...
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Treatment of obesity has many analogies with treatment of hypertension. Both diseases are defined by arbitrary cut points on a continuous variable. The impact of health of any deviation varies with the degree ...