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This easy to use text provides practitioners and researchers with a global view of current and emerging issues concerned with successful pregnancy outcomes and approaches that have been successful or show promise in ensuring a successful pregnancy. The fully updated and revised second edition expands its scope with topics not covered in the first edition including pregnancy and military service; sleep disorders during pregnancy; the gut microbiome during pregnancy and the newborn; requirement for vitamin D in pregnancy; the environment—contaminants and pregnancy; preeclampsia and new approaches to treatment; health disparities for whites, blacks, and teen pregnancies; depression in pregnancy—role of yoga; safe food handling for successful pregnancy outcome; relationship of epigenetics and diet in pregnancy; caffeine during pregnancy; polycystic ovary syndrome; US Hispanics and preterm births; celiac disease and pregnancy; cannabis use during pregnancy. The second edition of Handbook of Nutrition and Pregnancy will be a valuable resource for clinicians and other healthcare professionals who treat and counsel women of child-bearing age and pregnant women.

Pregnancy --- Nutrition in pregnancy --- Pregnant women --- Nutrition --- Mothers --- Nutritional aspects. --- Maternal and infant welfare. --- Personal health and hygiene. --- Obstetrics. --- Maternal and Child Health. --- Clinical Nutrition. --- Obstetrics/Perinatology/Midwifery. --- Maternal-fetal medicine --- Medicine --- Infant welfare --- Infants --- Maternity welfare --- Child welfare --- Women --- Maternal health services --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Charities --- Maternal and child health services. --- Clinical nutrition. --- Clinical nutrition --- Diet --- Diet and disease --- Dietotherapy --- Food --- Medical nutrition therapy --- MNT (Medical nutrition therapy) --- Nutrition therapy --- Dietetics --- Therapeutics, Physiological --- Therapeutic use

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The fifth edition of Volume 1 of the Handbook of Obesity written by global experts covers the broad topic areas of epidemiology, etiology, and pathophysiology of obesity. Divided into 5 sections and detailed in 66 chapters, this edition covers important advances that have occurred over the past decades. With a focus on the science of obesity, factors participating in the etiology of obesity, and the metabolic and health consequences of obesity, the topics are addressed from biological, behavioural, and environmental perspectives. Volume 1 is structured into 5 parts: Part 1 focuses on the history, definitions, and prevalence of obesity. It identifies the historical references to excess weight, obesity in art and literature, direct and surrogate measurements of adiposity and obesity related traits, and the epidemiology of obesity around the globe. Discussion of age, sex, and ethnic variation completes this part of the volume. Part 2 explores the biological determinants of obesity. It emphasizes bioenergetics, energy dissipation mechanisms, exposure to experimental overfeeding, genetic and epigenetic evidence, metabolic rates, energy expenditure and energy partitioning, and the evidence on infections and adiposity. Part 3 describes the behavioral determinants of obesity. It deals with foods, beverages, ingestive behavior, smoking, breast-feeding, sleep duration and pattern, sedentary behavior, occupational work, and leisure-time physical activity and their potential involvement in the etiology of obesity. Part 4 comprises chapters on environmental, social, and cultural determinants of obesity. The role of agriculture and the food industry in the current obesity epidemic, social and economic aspects of obesity, ethnic and cultural differences, and environmental pollutants are considered. Part 5 of this volume discusses the health consequences of obesity. The chapters address topics such as heart disease, lipoprotein metabolism, insulin resistance and diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, hepatic dysfunctions, pulmonary functions, arthritis and gout, mental health and quality of life, growth and health disorders in pediatric populations, and biases and discriminations affecting persons with obesity.

Obesity --- Obesity Management