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Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Epidemiology, Measurement, and Cost of Obesity; Obesity in Populations; Child and Adolescent Obesity; Adult Obesity; Obesity Rates Within Minority Groups and Subpopulations; Native Americans; Baby Boomers; Gender; Socioeconomic Status; Measurement of Obesity; Weight Related Health Indicators (WRHI); Height and Weight; Body Fat; Waist Circumference; Body Mass Index and Body Adiposity Index; Measurements in Special Adult Populations-Asian Americans; The Edmonton Obesity Staging System; Measurements in Children and Adolescents
Surveys of Health Status in the United StatesHealthcare Costs: The Impact of Obesity and Obesity-Related Disease; Social, Future, and Personal Cost of Obesity; Social Cost; Future Cost; Personal Cost; Implementing Specific Process for Chapter 1 Recommendations; Conclusion; References; 2 Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Preferred Approach to the Patient with Obesity; The Patient's Perspective; Discrimination, Prejudice, and Weight Stigma; Creating a Culture of Safety for the Patient with Obesity; The Current Healthcare Environment Is Prejudiced Against People with Obesity
Changing the Current Healthcare Environment from Biased to BlamelessThe Blame Game: Why Blame the Patient for Their Obesity When We Do not Blame Them for Their Allergies, High Cholesterol, Hypertension, or Cancer?; Inability or Unwillingness to Overcome Bias Against Obesity and Its Effects; How Obesity Bias Negatively Affects Medical Care and Outcomes; The Importance of Communicating the Measurement and Identification of Obesity of All Patients Within a Healthcare System; How to Talk with Your Patient About Obesity-The Preferred Approach; The Expression of Empathy
The Development of DiscrepancyImplementing Specific Process for Chapter Two Recommendations; For Staff and Colleagues; For Patients; Physical Environment of the Workplace; Conclusion; References; 3 The Biology of Weight Regulation and Genetic ResettingTM; The Canary in the Coal Mine; The Pima Story; Research Results: The NIH/NIDDK and the PIMA; Fetal Programming; Application of Research Results to Other Populations; Calories in Do Not Equal Calories Out; The Brain: The Control Center; Neuroanatomy; Genetic Resetting™: Setting the Stage for Obesity; The Double Helix-The Human Genome
Epigenetics and Epigenetic Modification (Genetic Resetting™)Imprinting; Intergenerational Metabolic Programming; Interactome Networks in Human Disease: Obesity; The Gut Brain Axis (GBA): Signals from the Gut to the Brain; The Microbiome and Microbiota; Why Eat?; Hormone Signals to the Brain; Taste-Not All in Your Mouth; Ghrelin: The "I'm Hungry" Hormone; Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1); Insulin; Cognitive Function and Glucose-Related Signaling; Signaling Through the Nervous System; The Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS); Parasympathetic Nervous System: The Vagus Nerve
Surveys of Health Status in the United StatesHealthcare Costs: The Impact of Obesity and Obesity-Related Disease; Social, Future, and Personal Cost of Obesity; Social Cost; Future Cost; Personal Cost; Implementing Specific Process for Chapter 1 Recommendations; Conclusion; References; 2 Prejudice, Discrimination, and the Preferred Approach to the Patient with Obesity; The Patient's Perspective; Discrimination, Prejudice, and Weight Stigma; Creating a Culture of Safety for the Patient with Obesity; The Current Healthcare Environment Is Prejudiced Against People with Obesity
Changing the Current Healthcare Environment from Biased to BlamelessThe Blame Game: Why Blame the Patient for Their Obesity When We Do not Blame Them for Their Allergies, High Cholesterol, Hypertension, or Cancer?; Inability or Unwillingness to Overcome Bias Against Obesity and Its Effects; How Obesity Bias Negatively Affects Medical Care and Outcomes; The Importance of Communicating the Measurement and Identification of Obesity of All Patients Within a Healthcare System; How to Talk with Your Patient About Obesity-The Preferred Approach; The Expression of Empathy
The Development of DiscrepancyImplementing Specific Process for Chapter Two Recommendations; For Staff and Colleagues; For Patients; Physical Environment of the Workplace; Conclusion; References; 3 The Biology of Weight Regulation and Genetic ResettingTM; The Canary in the Coal Mine; The Pima Story; Research Results: The NIH/NIDDK and the PIMA; Fetal Programming; Application of Research Results to Other Populations; Calories in Do Not Equal Calories Out; The Brain: The Control Center; Neuroanatomy; Genetic Resetting™: Setting the Stage for Obesity; The Double Helix-The Human Genome
Epigenetics and Epigenetic Modification (Genetic Resetting™)Imprinting; Intergenerational Metabolic Programming; Interactome Networks in Human Disease: Obesity; The Gut Brain Axis (GBA): Signals from the Gut to the Brain; The Microbiome and Microbiota; Why Eat?; Hormone Signals to the Brain; Taste-Not All in Your Mouth; Ghrelin: The "I'm Hungry" Hormone; Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1); Insulin; Cognitive Function and Glucose-Related Signaling; Signaling Through the Nervous System; The Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS); Parasympathetic Nervous System: The Vagus Nerve