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Focusing on prevention rather than treatment, Obesity: Dietary and Developmental Influences reviews and evaluates the determinants of obesity. The book uses evidence-based research as a basis to define foods and dietary behaviors that should be supported and encouraged as well as those that should be discouraged. This comprehensive review represents a critical step forward in the quest to identify actionable strategies to prevent obesity. The book describes the potential role of 26 different dietary factors and 8 developmental periods in the prevention of obesity among children and adults. The dietary factors examined include macronutrients, micronutrients, specific types of foods and beverages, snack and meal patterns, portion size, parenting practices, breastfeeding, and more. The factors from each developmental period in the life cycle are examined in the context of the likelihood of obesity development. For each dietary factor and developmental period, four lines of evidence are examined: secular trends, plausible mechanisms, observational studies, and prevention trials. Providing easy access to information, the book features 38 tables that summarize observational studies, 38 graphs depicting trends in dietary intake, and 9 tables that summarize prevention trials. It provides a synopsis of the latest research on obesity, investigating all major lines of evidence, and clarifies common misconceptions while identifying which behaviors to target and which dietary factors show the most promise for prevention.

Obesity --- Obésité --- etiology --- Ethiology --- Etiologie --- Obesity. --- Diet --- Nutrition --- Nutritional aspects. --- etiology. --- Nutritional aspects --- Obesity - Nutritional aspects --- Obesity - etiology - United States - Review --- Obesity - etiology - United States - Statistics --- Diet - United States - Review --- Diet - United States - statistics --- Nutrition - United States - Review --- Nutrition - United States - Statistics

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The papers in this volume provide much-needed focus and in-depth coverage of the effect of income volatility on the participation in and design of food assistance programs such as the Food Stamp Program and the National School Lunch Program.

Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States. --- Elderly poor -- Nutrition -- United States. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- Food relief -- United States. --- Food stamps -- United States. --- Income -- United States. --- School children -- Food -- United States. --- Economic assistance, Domestic. --- Food relief. --- Famine relief --- Food aid programs --- Food assistance programs --- Food distribution programs --- Disaster relief --- Humanitarian assistance --- Public welfare --- Emergency food supply --- Anti-poverty programs --- Government economic assistance --- Economic policy --- National service --- Grants-in-aid

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Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shape and capability of the human body to economic and demographic change. This fascinating and groundbreaking book presents an accessible introduction to the field of anthropometric history, surveying the causes and consequences of changes in health and mortality, diet and the disease environment in Europe and the United States since 1700. It examines how we define and measure health and nutrition as well as key issues such as whether increased longevity contributes to greater productivity or, instead, imposes burdens on society through the higher costs of healthcare and pensions. The result is a major contribution to economic and social history with important implications for today's developing world and the health trends of the future.

Anthropométrie --- Corps --- --Santé --- Life Expectancy --- Nutrition Surveys. --- Anthropometrie --- Westliche Welt --- Anthropometrie. --- Westliche Welt. --- --Développement --- --Europe --- --XVIIIe-XXe s., --- Anthropometry --- Health --- Nutrition --- Human beings --- History --- Alimentation --- Food --- Physiology --- Diet --- Dietetics --- Digestion --- Food habits --- Malnutrition --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Personal health --- Wellness --- Medicine --- Diseases --- Holistic medicine --- Hygiene --- Well-being --- Skeletal remains --- Physical anthropology --- Body size --- Health aspects --- Mortality --- History. --- history. --- trends. --- Mortalité --- Anthropométrie --- Santé --- Histoire --- Nutrition Surveys --- Nutritional Surveys --- NHANES --- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey --- Nutrition Survey --- Nutritional Survey --- Survey, Nutrition --- Survey, Nutritional --- Surveys, Nutrition --- Surveys, Nutritional --- history --- trends --- E-books --- Nutritional anthropology. --- Life expectancy --- Expectancy of life --- Expectation of life --- Life spans (Biology) --- Vital statistics --- Premature death --- Mortality, Law of --- Death --- Demography --- Death (Biology) --- Anthropology --- Arts and Humanities --- Santé --- Développement --- XVIIIe-XXe s., 1701-2000 --- Anthropometry - Western countries --- Health - History --- Nutrition - Europe - History --- Nutrition - United States - History --- Human beings - Europe - History --- Human beings - United States - History --- Europe