Obesity is an increasing problem on a global scale, and strategies for its prevention involve experts from many disciplines including nutritionists, physicians, policy-makers and public health professionals. This book covers the latest advances in obesity development, management and prevention with specific focus on dietary interventions. Part one covers the development of obesity and key drivers for its continuation and increase. Part two looks at the role of specific dietary components in obesity management, and part three discusses the role of behavioural factors such as eating patterns in managing and preventing obesity. Part four focuses on structured dietary interventions for obesity treatment, and part five looks at public interventions and consumer issues.

• Reviews how different foods and diets can affect obesity management
• Examines various ways of preventing and treating obesity
• Explores how governments and industries are preventing and treating obesity

- List of contributors
- Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
- Preface
- Introduction: an overview of the key drivers of obesity and their influence on diet
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Behavioural factors
- 3 Environmental and structural factors
- 4 Biological factors
- 5 Summary and conclusions
- Part One: General issues
- 1: Trends in understanding patterns of obesity and health outcomes
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 The importance of abdominal obesity
- 1.3 Global trends in obesity
- 1.4 Economic development and obesity
- 1.5 Social class differences in obesity
- 1.6 Obesity in women and its implications for maternal and infant health
- 1.7 Childhood obesity
- 1.8 Conclusions
- 2: Overview of the key current population-level strategies used to prevent obesity
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Physical activity strategies
- 2.3 Food and beverage strategies
- 2.4 School strategies
- 2.5 Healthcare and workplace strategies
- 2.6 Messaging strategies
- 2.7 Conclusion: integrating approaches
- Part Two: The role of different dietary components in obesity management
- 3: The role of high sugar foods and sugar-sweetened beverages in weight gain and obesity
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Sugar in our food supply
- 3.3 Biological mechanisms for some effects of sugar in beverages
- 3.4 Randomized clinical trials and longitudinal cohort studies link intake of sugar-sweetened beverages to the risk of obesity
- 3.5 Fruit juice and weight gain
- 3.6 Future trends
- 4: The impact of fruit and vegetable intake on weight management
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Importance of fruits and vegetables (FV)
- 4.3 FV and obesity prevention
- 4.4 Future trends
- 5: High protein diets in obesity management and weight control
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Internationally popular higher-protein diets
- 5.3 The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Total Wellbeing Diet
- 5.4 Evidence from meta-analyses and selected randomised control trials for the efficacy of higher-protein diets for weight control and metabolic health
- 5.5 Potential risks of high protein dietary patterns
- 5.6 Strategies to improve compliance to higher protein diets
- 5.7 Conclusions
- 6: Low-fat diets in obesity management and weight control
- 6.1 Introduction: overview of dietary fat and body weight
- 6.2 Total fat: mechanisms for association with body weight regulation
- 6.3 Type of fat: biological mechanisms for effects on energy balance
- 6.4 Sustainability of weight loss on low-fat diets
- 6.5 Conclusions
- 6.6 Future trends
- 7: The 'Mediterranean diet' and weight management
- 7.1 Introduction: the Mediterranean diet and other dietary patterns in the context of obesity
- 7.2 Definition of a Mediterranean dietary pattern
- 7.3 Epidemiological evidence on Mediterranean diet and weight management
- 7.4 Dietary and lifestyle intervention based on Mediterranean diet
- 7.5 Conclusions and future trends
- 8: Breastfeeding and weight in mothers and infants
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Energetic cost of breastfeeding
- 8.3 Postpartum weight change
- 8.4 Breastfeeding benefits for infants
- 8.5 Commentary on studies into the effect of breastfeeding on the weight of mothers and infants
- 8.6 Future trends
- Part Three: The role of eating patterns and other behavioural factors in obesity management
- 9: The role of dietary energy density in weight management
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Energy density explained
- 9.3 Controlled studies demonstrate the influence of dietary energy density on satiety, satiation, and energy intake
- 9.4 Dietary energy density and weight management
- 9.5 Strategies to reduce dietary energy density
- 9.6 Future trends
- 9.8 Acknowledgements
- 10: Controlling appetite and food intake by regulating eating frequency and timing
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 The relationship between motivation to eat and eating behaviour
- 10.3 Eating frequency and energy balance - observational studies of free-living adults consuming self-selected diets
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