Thinking in Circles About Obesity : Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management
Tarek K. A. Hamid
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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Medvirkende | Abdel-Hamid, Tarek K. (Author)
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Utgitt | New York : Springer , c2009
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Omfang | 1 online resource (462 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - 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. - From the Experts' Mouths to the Journalists' Ears to the Public's Mind. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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 per
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ISBN | 9780387094687
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