BookTarek K.A. Hamid.
Summary: "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 and medical physiology scholar Tarek Hamid unites systems (non-linear) thinking and information technology to provide insights and practical strategies for managing our weight and our health. Hamid's clear insights dispel dieters' unrealistic expectations and illuminate dead-end behaviors to tap into a deeper understanding how the body works, why it works that way, and how to better manage it." --Book Jacket.
Contents:
I. Mismanaging the Obesity Threat
1. Like Boiled Frogs
II. How We Changed Our Environment, and Now Our Environment Is Changing Us
2. Unbalanced Act
3. Human-Environment Interactions: Not One Way ... and Not One-Way
4. Tilting the Energy Balance: More Energy In
5. Tilting the Energy Balance: Less Energy Out
6. Individual Differences
7. Is Ad-Lib Behavior Killing Us?
III. We Can't Manage What We Don't Understand
8. Energy Balance Equation: Reigning Intellectual Paradigm or Straitjacket?
9. What We Know that Ain't So
10. Closing the Loops on Energy Balance: Energy Output Side
11. Closing the Loops on Energy Balance: Energy Input Side
12. Beyond Physiology: Closing the Behavior-Physiology Loop
13. Looking Back and Looking Forward
IV. We Can't Manage What We Mis-Predict
14. Learning by Doing
15. "Give Us the Tools, and We Will Finish the Job"
16. Microworld for Weight and Energy Regulation
17. Experiment 1: Assessing Weight Loss-Reality Versus Fiction
18. Experiment 2: Going Ballistic
On a Diet
19. Experiment 3: Understanding Why 250 Pounds Does Not Equal 250 Pounds
20. Experiment 4: Trading Treatment Options-Diet Versus Exercise
21. t PhDs for the Masses? (That's Personal Health Decision support)
V. Prevention and Beyond
22. Fat Lady ... Models
23. Third Path: Prevention
24. Location, Location, Location: Places to Intervene in Systems
25. It Will Take More Than Food Pyramids
26. Microworlds R Us
27. Beyond Prevention.