v. 1. A-I
About the editor
Introduction
Reader's guide
List of articles
List of contributors
Body mass index
Access to nutritious foods
Accessibility of foods
Acomplia
Addictive behaviors
Adipocytes
Adiponectin
Adrenergic receptors
Advertising
Africa, North
Africa, Sub-Saharan
African Americans
Agouti and agouti related protein
Akokine
Alcohol
American Academy of Pediatrics
American College of Sports medicine
American Diabetes Association
American Dietetic Association
American Heart Association
American Obesity Association
American Society for Bariatric Surgery
Amphetamines
Animal models of obesity
Animal QTLs (Quantitative trait locus)
Anorexia nervosa
Antidepressants
Anxiety
Appearance
Appetite control
Appetite signals
Asia, Central
Asia, East
Asia, South
Asia, Southeast
Asian Americans
Assessment of obesity and health risks
Asthma
Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis in children
Atkins diet
Australia and Pacific
Autonomic nervous system
Axokine


Back pain
Bardet-Biedl Syndromes
Bariatric surgery in children
Bariatric surgery in women
Barker hypothesis
Behavioral treatment of child obesity
Beverage choices in children
Bioelectrical impedance analysis
Blood lipids
Bod pod and pea pod
Body dysmorphic disorder
Body fat distribution in African Americans
Body fat distribution in Asian Americans
Body fat distribution in Hispanic Americans
Body image
Body image disorders
Body mass index
Bombesin
Breast cancer
Breastfeeding
Built environments
Bulimia nervosa
Caffeine
Calcium and dairy products
Caloric restriction
Cannabinoid system
Carbohydrate "addictions"
Carbohydrate and protein intake
Cardiovascular disease in African Americans
Cardiovascular disease in Asian Americans
Cardiovascular disease in Hispanic Americans
CART peptides
Caucasians
CD36 and FAT (fatty acid transporters)
Center for Maternal and Child Health
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Central America and Caribbean
Central nervous system
Central obesity


Changing children's food habits
Childhood obesity as a risk factor for adult overweight
Childhood obesity treatment centers in the United States
Childhood onset eating disorders
Child obesity programs
Children and diets
Children's television programming
Cholecystokinin
Chromium picolinate
CNS/hypothalmic energy sensing
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Colon cancer
Combined approaches to treatment
Community programs to prevent obesity
Compulsive overeating
computerized tomography
Computers and the media
Conditioned food preferences
Congestive heart failure
Coronary heart disease in women
Corticotropin-releasing hormone
Cortisol
Cost of medical obesity treatments
Council on Size and Weight Discrimination
C-reactive protein
Cushing syndrome
Cytokines


Db/Db mouse
Department of agriculture
Department of Health and Human SErvices
Depression
DEXA (Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry)
Dexatrim
Dietary restraint
Dieting : good or bad?
Diet myths
Dilution techniques
Disinhibited eating
Disordered eating
Dominican Americans
Dopamine
Doubly labeled water
Down's syndrome
Drugs and food
Drugs that block fat cell formation
Drug targets that decrease food intake/appetite
DSM-IV
Early onset menarche and obesity in women
Eating disorders and athletes
Eating disorders and gender
Eating disorders and obesity
Eating disorders in school children
Eating out in the United States
Economic disparities among obesity in women
Economics of obesity
EDNOS
Elevated cholesterol
Endometrial and uterine cancers
Energy density
Energy expenditure technologies
Ephedra
Epistatic effects of genes on obesity
Estrogen levels
Estrogen-related receptor
Ethnic disparities in obesity among women
Ethnic disparities in the prevalence of childhood obesity
Ethnic variations in body fat storage
Ethnic variations in obesity-related health risks
Europe, Eastern


Europe, Western
Exercise
Expanded food and nutrition program
External controls
Familial lipodystrophies
Families of eating disorder patients
Family behavioral interventions
Family therapy in the treatment of overweight children
Fast food
Fat acceptance
Fat intake
Fat taste
Fatty acid transport proteins
Fatty liver
Federal initiatives to prevent obesity
Feminist perspective and body image disorders
Fenfluramine
Fertility
Fiber and obesity
Fitness
Flavor : taste and smell
Flavor programming and childhood food preferences
Folic acid and neural tube defects
Food "addictions"
Food and Drug Administration
Food guide pyramid
Food insecurity and obesity
Food intake assessments in children
Food intake patterns
Food labeling
Food marketing to children
Food preferences
Food reward
Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program
Fruits and vegetables
Functional foods
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
Future of medical treatments for obesity


Gallbladder disease
Gastroesophageal reflux (GERD)
Gastrointestinal disorders
Gastroplasty
Genetic influences on eating disorders
Genetic mapping of obesity-related genes
Genetics
Genetic taste factors
Genomics
Gestational diabetes
Ghrelin
Glucagon receptor
Glucocordicoids
Glucokinase
Gout
Government agencies
Governmental policy and obesity
Governmental subsidizing of energy dense foods
G-protein coupled receptors
Growth hormone
Gustatory system
Habituation
HDL receptors
Head start
Health coverage of gastric surgeries
health disparities
NIH strategic plan
Healthy eating index
Healthy people 2010
High-carbohydrate diets
High-density diets
Hispanic Americans
Histamines
Hormone disorders
Hormone sensitive lipase
Human QTLs
Hunger
Hydrodensitrometry
Hypertension
Hypertension in African Americans
Hypertension in animal models
Hypertension in Asian Americans
Hypertension in children
Hypertension in Hispanic Americans
Hypertension pharmacotheraphy
Hypothalamus
Hypothryrodism


Immigration and obesity
Implications of gestational development
Implications of restriction of foods on child feeding habits
Impotence
Impulsivity
Inaccessibility of exercise
Income level
Increased reliance on automobiles
Increasing portion sizes
Increasing portion sizes
Indirect calorimetry
Infant growth rate
Infant weight gain and childhood overweight
Inflammation
Inherited taste preferences
Insulin
Insulin-like growth factors
Interleukins
International Obesity Task Force
Intestinal microflora concentrations
Intrauterine growth restriction
In utero programming
Jenny Craig
Kidney failure
Kidney stones
Laparoscopy
Lap band
L.A. Weight Loss
LDL receptors
Leptin
Leptin supplements
Liking vs. wanting
Lipoprotein lipase
Liquid diets
Loneliness
Low birth weight
Low-calorie diets
Low-density lipoproteins
Low-fat diets
Macrodiets
Magnetic resonance imaging scans
Maternal influences on child feeding
Medical interventions for children
Medications that affect nutrient partitioning
Medications that increase body weight
Medication therapy after bariatric surgery
Medifast
Mendelian disorders related to obesity
Menopause
Menstrual problems
Metabolic disorders and childhood obesity
Metabolic rate
Metformin
Mexican Americans
Microarray analysis


Middle East
Monogenic effects that result in obesity
Mood and food
Morbid obesity in children
Morbid obesity in men
Morbid obesity in women
Mortality and obesity
Multidisciplinary bariatric programs
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
National Cancer Institute
National Center for Health Statistics
National Eating Disorders Association
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
National weight loss efforts for children
Native Americans
Neuropeptides
Neurotransmitters
New candidate obesity genes
New drug targets that prevent fat absorption
New drug targets to improve insulin sensitivity
New drug targets to increase metabolic rate
NIDDK
Night eating syndrome
Non-diet approaches
Noradrenergic drugs
Norepinephrine
North America
North American Association for the Study of Obesity
NPY (neuropeptide Y)
Nutrient reward
Nutrisystem
Nutrition and nutritionists
Nutrition education
Nutritions fads


Obese women and marriage
Obese women and social stigmatization
Obesity Action Coalition
Obesity and academic performance
Obesity and cancer
Obesity and drug use
Obesity and socioeconomic status
Obesity and sports
Obesity and the brain
Obesity and the immune system
Obesity and the media
Obesity and viruses
Obesity in schools
Ob/Ob mouse
Obsessive compulsive disorders
Office of Dietary Supplements
Office of Minority Health
Olfactory system
Opioid receptor
Opioids
Optifast
Orlistat (Xenical)
Osteoarthritis
Osteoporosis
Ovarian cancer
Overall diet quality
Overweight children and school performance
Overweight children and the media
Oxytocin and food intake
Palatability
Parental and home environments
Patient sensitivity
Peer influences on obesity in children
Perilipins
Peripheral nervous system
Personal relationships and obesity
Pharmacological treatment of childhood obesity
Physical activity and obesity
Physical activity in children
Physical activity patterns in the obese
Physician-assisted weight loss
Physiological aspects of anorexia nervosa
Physiological aspects of bulimia nervosa
Pima Indians
Pituitary gland
Policy to prevent obesity
Polycystic ovary disease


POMC (proopiomelanocortin)
Portion control
PPAR (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors)
Prader-Willi syndrome
Pregnancy
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
Prevalence of childhood obesity in developing countries
Prevalence of childhood obesity in the Unites States
Prevalence of childhood obesity worldwide
Prevalence of disordered eating
Prevalence of obesity in U.S. women
Prevention
Prostate cancer
Protein kinase
Psychiatric medicine and obesity
Puerto Rican Americans
Qualifications for gastric surgery
Quality of life
Quantitative trait locus mapping
Respiratory problems
Rimonabant
Roux-en-y-gastric bypass
Safe play opportunities for children
Safety of urban environments
Satietin
School-based interventions to prevent obesity in children
School lunch programs
Self-esteem and children's weight
Self-esteem and obesity
Self-esteem in obese women
Sensory-specific satiety
Serotonergic medications
Set or settling point
Sexual abuse and eating disorders
Sexual health
Shape Up America!
Sibutramine (Meridia)
Sisters Together
Sleep apnea
Sleep duration and obesity
Slim-Fast


Smoking
SNP Technologies
Social marketing and obesity
Soda and soft drinks
South America
South Beech diet
State and local initiatives to prevent obesity
Stereotypes and obesity
Steroids
Stigmas against overweight children
Stress
Stress urinary incontinence
Stroke
Sugar and fat substitutes
Suicidality
Supersizing
Supplements and obesity
Support groups
Support groups for obese women
Sweet taste
Sympathetic nervous system
Taste aversion learning
Taste reactivity
Taxation of unhealthy foods
Television
Three-D image reconstruction
Thrifty gene hypothesis
Thyroid gland
Thyroid medications
TNF (tumor nucrosis factors)
Toxic environment
Transgenics and knockouts for obesity-related genes
Translational research
Treatment Centers for Eating Disorders
Tryptophan
Tubby candidate gene
Twin studies and genetics of obesity
Type 2 diabetes


Uncoupling proteins
Urinary incontinence in severe obesity in women
Uterine cancers
Variety of foods and obesity
Vegetarianism
Vertical banded gastroplasty
Very low-calorie diets
Viral causes
Visceral adipose tissue
Volumetrics
Waist circumference
Waist-to-hip ratio
Water and obesity
Weight-control information network
Weight cycling and yo-yo dieting
Weight discrimination
Weight Watchers
Well-being
Western diet
Whole-body potassium counting
Women and diabetes
Women and dieting
World patterns
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