Overview
- Casts new light on the mechanisms, potential targets of future interventions, and the challenges that must be overcome to break the intergenerational cycle of obesity
- Offers a valuable source of information for students, clinicians, researchers and health policy makers
- All chapters were written by leading scientists, clinicians and policy makers in this field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Physiology in Health and Disease (PIHD)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
In this book, leading figures in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease provide up-to-date information from human clinical trials, cohorts, and animal physiology experiments to reveal the interdependence between parental obesity and health of the offspring. Obesity of the mother and father produces obesity in their offspring, so we are caught up in an intergenerational cycle, which means that even our children’s future health is in peril. This book gives a timely and much-needed synthesis of the mechanisms, potential targets of future interventions, and the challenges that need to be overcome in order to break the intergenerational cycle of obesity. This has profound implications for the way in which scientific, clinical and health policy activities are to be directed in order to combat the so-called epidemic of obesity, as well as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. The book will be of interest to students, clinicians, researchers and health policy makers who are either seeking an introduction to the area of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease or have a specific interest in the pathogenesis of obesity.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Parental Obesity: Intergenerational Programming and Consequences
Editors: Lucy R. Green, Robert L. Hester
Series Title: Physiology in Health and Disease
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6386-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The American Physiological Society 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6384-3Published: 03 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8183-0Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-6386-7Published: 01 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2625-252X
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 389
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Physiology, Animal Physiology, Gene Expression, Maternal and Child Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention