Umfang:
Online-Ressource (XV, 447p. 132 illus., 66 illus. in color, digital)
ISBN:
9780387094694
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9780387094687
Serie:
SpringerLink
Inhalt:
" Thinking in Circles About Obesity has been ""Highly Commended"" in the ""Popular Medicine"" category of the 2010 BMA Book Awards.Low-carb...low-fat...high-protein...high-fiber...Americans are food-savvy, label-conscious, calorie-aware-and still gaining weight in spite of all their good intentions. Worse still, today's children run the risk of a shorter life expectancy than their parents.Thinking in Circles About Obesity brings a healthy portion of critical thinking, spiced with on-target humor and lively graphics, to the obesity debate. Systems scholar Tarek Hamid proposes that a major shift in perspective is needed to address the problem. This book unites systems (non-linear) thinking and information technology to provide powerful insights and practical strategies for managing our bodies, as well as our health. Applying these creative, business-tested techniques to personal health lets readers approach weight problems like CEOs-not bean-counters!-and connect the elusive links between the biological, environmental, social, and psychological factors that contribute to overweight and obesity, yo-yo dieting and willpower issues. The author's clear insights dispel dieters' unrealistic expectations and illuminate dead-end behaviors to tap into a deeper understanding of how the body works, why it works that way, and how to improve the bottom line. For optimum results, he includes innovative tools for:Understanding why diets almost always fall short of our expectations.Assessing weight gain, loss, and goals with greater accuracy.Abandoning one-size-fits-all solutions in lieu of personal solutions that do fit.Replacing outmoded linear thinking with feedback systems thinking.Getting the most health benefits from information technology.Making behavior and physiology work in sync instead of in opposition.Given the current level of the weight crisis, the ideas in Thinking in Circles About Obesity have much to offer the clinical or health psychologist, the primary care physician, the public health professional the parent and the lay reader. For those struggling with overweight, this book charts a new path in health decision-making, to see beyond calorie charts, Body Mass Indexes, and silver bullets."
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Thinking in Circles About Obesity; Preface; The Book's Outline; The Story of the Book; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part 1: Mismanaging the Obesity Threat; Like Boiled Frogs; How the Problem Sneaked Up on Us; The Temperature Is Rising; The Heavy Burden of Obesity; For Older Americans, The Future Is Now; The Sociocultural Burden; ''Globesity''; A Bucket Half-Empty?; The Leverage (or the Impediment) Is with the People; It Is Not Easy Becoming a Top Gun; States In Mind; Emotions Play a Role; Failure to Learn from Failure; Single-Loop vs. Double-Loop Learning; Barriers to Learning
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What Is to Be Done?Metanoia; Synthesis, Not Analysis; What Is Feedback?; Circles, Not Straight Lines; Dynamic, Not Static; Obliterating, Not Automating; Notes; Part 2: How We Changed Our Environment, and Now Our Environment Is Changing Us; Unbalanced Act; ''For every complex problem there is an [explanation] that is simple, direct, and hellip wrong.''; Moving Beyond Individual-Centric Explanations; ''Civilization is but a filmy fringe on the history of man.''; Evolved Asymmetry of Our Physiology; How Asymmetry Is Achieved by Our Physiology; Asymmetry in Energy Intake
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Asymmetry in Energy ExpenditureAsymmetry in Energy Storage; Conclusion; Human-Environment Interactions: Not One Way hellip and Not One-Way; Human Behavior Is Not Expressed in a Vacuum; It Is Not Just Physical; We shape our environment, and then our environment shapes us.; A Symphony Out of Tune?; Tilting the Energy Balance: More Energy In; The Quantity of Food We Eat; The Causes Behind the Cause; How America's Eating Habits Started to Change; The First Mechanism: The Time We Eat; Soft Drinks: The Liquid Snack; The Second Mechanism: Where We Eat; Fast Food: Eat Anywhere, Everywhere
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The Qualitative DimensionThe Quantity Dimension; Events Give Birth to Trends, But What Escalates Them Are Self-Reinforcing Processes; Demand-Pull; Supply-Push; Putting It All Together; Hurricane Obesa; Tilting the Energy Balance: Less Energy Out; The Water Is Boiling!; Work: Engineering Energy Expenditure Out of the Workplace; Moving About: Transport and Urban Design; Play and Leisure; The Burden Is Cumulative; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or Changing the Vicious to Virtuous; Individual Differences; Some Are ''Squares,'' and Some Are Not; Deciphering the Code, One Gene at a Time
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Genes and Individual Susceptibility to Weight Gain: The Experimental FindingsThe Pimas; Genetic x Environmental Interactions: Conclusion; Is Ad-Lib Behavior Killing Us?; A (Mis-)Match Made in America; Like Our Genes, Our Mental Models Did Not Change; Turning-Off Automatic Control and Asserting Cognitive Control; It Can Be Done; The Allure of the ''Silver Bullet''; Looking Ahead; Notes; Part 3: We Can't Manage What We Don't Understand; The Energy Balance Equation: Reigning Intellectual Paradigm or Straitjacket?; The Magic Number
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From the Experts' Mouths to the Journalists' Ears to the Public's Mind
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ISBN 9780387094687
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hamid, Tarek K. A. Thinking in circles about obesity New York : Springer, 2009 ISBN 0387094687
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780387094687
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Chemie/Pharmazie
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Biologie
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Psychologie
Schlagwort(e):
Gewichtsabnahme
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Abhängigkeit
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Medizinische Psychologie
DOI:
10.1007/978-0-387-09469-4
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