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Today's children may well become the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will be shorter than that of their parents. The culprit, public health experts agree, is obesity and its associated health problems. Heretofore, the strategy to slow obesity's galloping pace has been driven by what the philosopher Karl Popper calls ''the bucket theory of the mind. '' When minds are seen as containers and public understanding is viewed as being a function of how many scientific facts are known, the focus is naturally on how many scientific facts public minds contain. But the strategy has not worked. Despite all the diet books, the wide availability of reduced-calorie and reduced-fat foods, and the broad publicity about the obesity problem, America's waistline continues to expand. It will take more than food pyramid images or a new nutritional guideline to stem obesity's escalation. Albert Einstein once observed that the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them, and that we would have to shift to a new level, a deeper level of thinking,tosolvethem. Thisbookarguesfor,andpresents,adifferent perspective for thinking about and addressing the obesity problem: a systems thinking perspective. While already commonplace in engineering and in business, the use of systems thinking in personal health is less widely adopted. Yet this is precisely the setting where complexities are most problematicandwherethestakesarehighest.
Contents
Mismanaging the Obesity Threat.- Like Boiled Frogs.- How We Changed Our Environment, and Now Our Environment Is Changing Us.- Unbalanced Act.- Human-Environment Interactions: Not One Way ... and Not One-Way.- Tilting the Energy Balance: More Energy In.- Tilting the Energy Balance: Less Energy Out.- Individual Differences.- Is Ad-Lib Behavior Killing Us?.- We Can't Manage What We Don't Understand.- The Energy Balance Equation: Reigning Intellectual Paradigm or Straitjacket?.- What We Know that Ain't So.- Closing the Loops on Energy Balance: Energy Output Side.- Closing the Loops on Energy Balance: Energy Input Side.- Beyond Physiology: Closing the Behavior-Physiology Loop.- Looking Back and Looking Forward.- We Can't Manage What We Mis-Predict.- Learning by Doing.- "Give Us the Tools, and We Will Finish the Job".- A Microworld for Weight and Energy Regulation.- Experiment 1: Assessing Weight Loss—Reality Versus Fiction.- Experiment 2: Going Ballistic—On a Diet.- Experiment 3: Understanding Why 250 Pounds Does Not Equal 250 Pounds.- Experiment 4: Trading Treatment Options—Diet Versus Exercise.- PhDs for the Masses? (That's Personal Health Decision support).- Prevention and Beyond.- The Fat Lady ... Models.- The Third Path: Prevention.- Location, Location, Location: Places to Intervene in Systems.- It Will Take More Than Food Pyramids.- Microworlds ? Us.- Beyond Prevention.
