Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 The components of a balanced diet
    • 1.1 Balanced energy intake
    • 1.2 Inadequate intake
    • 1.3 Obesity
    • 1.4 Obesity treatment
  • 2 Genes, environment and the causes of obesity
    • 2.1 Ron revisited
    • 2.2 Experimental studies of energy balance
    • 2.3 Obesity – an evolutionary perspective
    • 2.4 Obesity and brain reward systems
    • 2.5 Obesity and ageing
    • 2.6 A gene ‘for’ obesity?
    • 2.7 Treatments for obesity
      • 2.7.1 Adipose tissue
    • 2.8 Summary of Section 2
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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