Full Description
Global Perspectives on Childhood Obesity: Current Status, Consequences and Prevention, Second Edition examines the current childhood obesity epidemic, outlines the consequences of this crisis, and develops strategies to forestall and prevent it. This book provides a thorough investigation of the causes of childhood obesity and, more importantly, offers specific prevention strategies that can be used by medical and mental health professionals, policymakers, community organizers, and individuals. New chapters on BMI and cardiovascular disease, exercise, neurotransmitters, neurocognition, nutrigenomics and combined prevention strategies are included, making this a solid introduction on the childhood obesity crisis.
Researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in public health, health policy, and health economics, as well those working in medicine, pharmacy, nutrition, school health, physiology, and neuroscience related to obesity will find this to be a comprehensive resource.
Contents
Section I: Epidemiology and Prevalence
1. Children Obesity: From a Pediatrician's Viewpoint
2. Salient Features on Children Obesity from the Viewpoint of Nutritionists
3. Pathways Leading to Childhood Obesity
4. The Measurement and Epidemiology of Childhood Obesity
5. Good Enough Parenting, Self-Regulation and the Management of Weight-Related Problems
6. Nursing Perspective on Childhood Obesity
7. Childhood Obesity: From an Exercise Physiologists' Viewpoint
8. Childhood Body Mass Index as an Indicator of Adult Cardiovascular Risk Factors
9. Contemporary Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Patterns in US Childhood Obesity
10. Prediabetes among obese youth
11. Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: An Emerging Epidemic Among Obese Youth
12. Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in US Youth
Section II: Pathophysiology
13. Emerging pathways to Child Obesity starts from the Mothers' Womb: A Prospective View
14. The Social, Cultural and Familial Contexts Contributing to Childhood Obesity
15. Cardiovascular Risk Clustering in Obese Children
16. A Link between Maternal and Childhood Obesity
17. Is prenatal exposure to maternal obesity linked to child mental health?
18. Sleep and the Epidemic of Obesity in Children
20. Cellular remodeling during the growth of the adipose tissue, Coralie Sengenès
21. Children Obesity, Glucose Tolerance, Ghrelin and Prader Willi Syndrome
22. Insulin Resistance in Pediatric Obesity - Physiological Effects and Possible Diet Treatment
23. Role of Fatty Liver Disease in Childhood Obesity
Section III: Psychological and Behavioral Factors
24. An Overview of Psychological Symptoms in Obese Children
25. Childhood obesity: Depression, anxiety and recommended therapeutic strategies
26. The Emotional Impact of Obesity on Children
27. Psychiatric Illness, Psychotropic Medication and Childhood Obesity
28. Childhood Obesity: Public Health Impact and Policy Responses
29. Childhood Obesity and Juvenile Diabetes
30. Childhood Obesity, Type II Diabetes and Bone Health
Section V: Prevention and Treatment
31. A Community-Level Perspective for Childhood Obesity Prevention
32. Neuro-cognition, Self-regulation, and Obesity
33. Combining Nutrition Education, Foodservice (Feeding Programs), and Physical Activity Obesity Prevention Interventions for Children: Significant Improvements in the Health and Academic Achievement of Young Children
34. Nutrigenomics based Prevention for the Obesity in Korean Children
35. School-Based Physical Activity and Nutrition Curriculum in the Prevention of Childhood Obesity
36. School-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions Show Promising Improvements in the Health and Academic Achievements among Ethnically-Diverse Young Children
37. School and Community-Based Physical Education and Healthy Active Living Programs: Holistic Practices in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States
38. Schools as *Laboratories* for Obesity Prevention: Proven Effective Models
39. Fitness and Fatness in Childhood Obesity: Implications of Physical Activity
40. Pharmacotherapy in Childhood Obesity,
41. Beverage Interventions to Prevent Child Obesity
42. Psychotherapy as an Intervention for Child Obesity
43. Childhood obesity: Psychological correlates and recommended therapeutic strategies
44. The Role of Arginine for Treating Obese Youth
45. Prevention of Child Obesity by Natural Products
Section VI: Commentary and Recommendations
46. The Role of United States' Law to Prevent and Control Childhood Obesity
47. Childhood Obesity as an Amplifier of Societal Inequality in the United States
48. Child Obesity, Food Choice and Market Influence
49. The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity
50. Evaluation and Management of Childhood Obesity in Primary Care Settings
51. The Future Directions of Children Obesity and Clinical Management
