Obesity - Short Scientific Findings to Ameliorate the Body Weight

By Linda Miller

The obesity prevalence, an established hazard parameter for many long-standing illnesses such as several kinds of cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and diabetes, has increased continuously for the past several decades in many parts of the world, especially in the United States. The findings indicate that about thirty percent of U.S. children and seventy percent of adults are at a harmful weight.
This is an important ebooklet that investigates the scientific researches about obesity and regulation of body weight. It has several dietary strategies to modify the body metabolic pathways.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781365907371

Linda Miller

Dr. Linda Miller is a nationally recognized speaker and consultant for early childhood programs, leading her own company, Innovations in Education, Inc. She has developed curricula for numerous child care companies and also acts as an expert witness in cases involving curriculum and supervision. In recent years Dr. Miller has taught for Wheelock College of Boston in Bermuda, Singapore, and The Bahamas. Mary Jo Gibbs has worked with young children for more than 25 years. She has been a kindergarten teacher, a curriculum writer, and a training specialist for child care providers.

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Obesity - Short Scientific Findings to Ameliorate the Body Weight

Obesity - Short Scientific Findings to Ameliorate the Body Weight

By Linda Miller

Copyright

Copyright © 2017 Linda Miller

All rights reserved.

Published by Linda Miller

First Printing: April 2017

ISBN 978-1-365-90737-1

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Regulation of Body Weight

Chapter 2. Protection Process to Obesity

Chapter 3. Metabolic Inflexibility

Chapter 4. Insulin Resistance

Chapter 5. Regulation of Insulin and Glucose Levels

Chapter 6. Glycemic Index

Chapter 7. Obesity and Glycemic Index

Chapter 8. Vegetable Protein Versus High Protein and Dairy Source

Chapter 9. High Protein Diets Versus Low Glycemic Index

Chapter 10. Meal Frequency

Chapter 11. Future Research

Chapter 12. Summary

About the Author

Introduction

Obesity and overweight show a worldwide growing health problem that strongly increases the possibility for the serious metabolic irregularities development including cardiovascular and type 2 diabetes mellitus disorders. Insulin response reduces as with growing obesity, and the system generally balances by increasing pancreatic beta cell activity and subsequently insulin release (1). When beta cells can no longer offset for the high insulin resistance rates in peripheral tissues, overt hyperglycemia expand until later phases (2). Also, some studies showed that insulin resistance expands during weight enhancement within the normal body weight range (3).

Genetic parameters are proposed to play a significant role in the regulation of body weight. However, the main contributing parameters to the enhancement of obesity in most countries are the increased diet energy density and fat intake, together with lower levels of physical activity