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Parental Obesity : Intergenerational Programming and Consequences

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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.

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Series Title

Physiology in Health and Disease

Call Number

616.398 PAR

Publisher

: Springer., 2016

Collation

XII, 389 halaman

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4939-6386-7

Classification

616.398

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text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

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Subject(s)

Obesity

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Statement of Responsibility

Penyunting, Lucy R. Green, Robert L. Hester

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maya

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