Adiposity

Epidemiology and Treatment Modalities

Jan Oxholm Gordeladze

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9789535129950
• eBook ISBN:
  9789535173519
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: General Health

This book is the first in a series of two, featuring the Adiposity - Epidemiology and Treatment Modalities, serving as a summary of the traditional views on how the organ systems are affected when higher organs start to suffer from enhanced body weight, where most of this additional weight consists of white adipose tissue (WAT). The understanding of the "epidemiology" of obesity will consequently enable clinicians and researchers to better understand the untoward "trends" of "metabolic aberrations" from a well-organized and health-bringing homeostasis, with fully responding WAT and BAT, thus enabling a balance between fat-producing and fat-metabolizing tissues for the benefit of the various organ systems taking care of the fat and carbohydrate metabolism, normally yielding a balanced energy turnover, ensuring "healthy" cell phenotypes, which optimally coordinate the energy metabolism in a well-functioning organism throughout a lifetime.

Table of contents

• Adiposity - Epidemiology and Treatment Modalities
• Contents
• Preface
• Section 1 Introduction
• Section 2 Obesity – The New, Non-Contagious Epidemic
• Section 3 Factors Predisposing for the Development of Obesity
• Section 4 Lifestyle and Intervention – Preventive Remedies