Medicine & Health Sciences

The Complexity of Adolescent Obesity
Causes, Correlates, and Consequence

Editor: Peter D. Vash, MD

The Complexity of Adolescent Obesity

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Pub Date: December 2014
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Hard ISBN: 9781771880978
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-77463-373-1
E-Book ISBN: 9781498717007
Pages: 350pp w/ index
Binding Type: hardbound / ebook / paperback

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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

The research contained in this valuable compendium offers a much-needed perspective on one of the most dangerous health crises our world faces today: obesity. Obesity has become an epidemic, a fact frequently discussed in the media, with many references to both childhood obesity and adult. These discussions, however, overlook an important demographic: the adolescent who is obese or overweight. In this book, the authors’ investigations offer critical insights into the forces and factors that result in the numerous metabolic and psychological consequences of adolescent obesity.

The book delves into the prevalence, causes and correlates, and implications and consequences of adolescent obesity, and goes on to present considerations for future action.

The research covers many of the causes of adolescent obesity, including increased consumption of high carbohydrate snacks; eating too much, too fast, and too frequently; eating high-fat, cheap, convenient, and readily accessible foods; increased sedentary activities, such as TV watching and video games, accompanied by decreased physical activity; parents’ and schools’ lack of nutrition vigilance; and the commercial incentives to sell calorie-dense foods aggressively and relentlessly.

Edited by an eminent doctor and professor, The Complexity of Adolescent Obesity is an easily accessible and well-organized volume that offers vital research context for policymakers, educators, medical providers, and families.

CONTENTS:
Introduction
Part I: The Prevalence of Adolescent Obesity
1. Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Adolescents: A Systematic Review
Maria del Mar Bibiloni, Antoni Pons, and Josep A. Tur

Part II: Causes and Correlations
2. Television Viewing and Food Choice Patterns in a Sample of Predominantly Ethnic Minority Youth
Daheia J. Barr-Anderson, William J. McCarthy, Michelle Yore, Kajuandra A. Harris, and Antronette (Toni) K. Yancey
3. Later Bedtime is Associated with Greater Daily Energy Intake and Screen Time in Obese Adolescents Independent of Sleep Duration
Kristi B. Adamo, Shanna Wilson, Kevin Belanger, and Jean-Philippe Chaput
4. Infrequent Breakfast Consumption Is Associated with Higher Body Adiposity and Abdominal Obesity in Malaysian School-Aged Adolescents
Abdullah Nurul-Fadhilah, Pey Sze Teo, Inge Huybrechts, and Leng Huat Foo
5. Relationship of Milk Intake and Physical Activity to Abdominal Obesity among Adolescents
S. Abreu, R. Santos, C. Moreira, P. C. Santos, S. Vale, L. Soares-Miranda, R. Autran, J. Mota, and P. Moreira
6. The Effect of “Sleep High and Train Low” on Weight Loss in Overweight Chinese Adolescents: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
Ru Wang, Dongmei Liu, Xueqiang Wang, Weihua Xiao, Nana Wu, Binghong Gao, and Peijie Chen
7. Waist-to-Height Ratio and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adolescence: Findings from a Prospective Birth Cohort
L. Graves, S. P. Garnett, C. T. Cowell, L. A. Baur, A. Ness, N. Sattar, and D. A. Lawlor
8. Neurobehavioural Correlates in Older Children and Adolescents with Obesity and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Evan Tan, Dione Healey, Elizabeth Schaughency, Patrick Dawes, and Barbara Galland

Part III: Implications and Consequences
9. Weight Status and Weight-Management Behaviors Among Philadelphia High School Students, 2007–2011
Clare M. Lenhart Katherine W. Bauer, and Freda Patterson
10. Fitness, Fatness, and Academic Performance in Seventh-Grade Elementary School Students
Luís B. Sardinha, Adilson Marques, Sandra Martins, António Palmeira, and Cláudia Minderico
11. Physical Fitness, Overweight and the Risk of Eating Disorders in Adolescents. The AVENA and AFINOS Studies
A. M. Veses, D. Martínez-Gómez, S. Gómez-Martínez, G. Vicente-Rodriguez, R. Castillo, F. B. Ortega, M. González-Gross, M. E. Calle, O. L. Veiga, A. Marcos, for the AVENA and AFINOS Study Groups
12. Adolescent Obesity, Joint Pain, and Hypermobility
Sharon Bout-Tabaku, Sarah B. Klieger, Brian H. Wrotniak, David D. Sherry, Babette S. Zemel, and Nicolas Stettler
13. FTO, Obesity and the Adolescent Brain
Melkaye G. Melka, Jesse Gillis, Manon Bernard, Michal Abrahamowicz, M. Mallar Chakravarty, Gabriel T. Leonard, Michel Perron, Louis Richer, Suzanne Veillette, Tobias Banaschewski, Gareth J. Barker, Christian Büchel, Patricia Conrod, Herta Flor, Andreas Heinz, Hugh Garavan, Rüdiger Brühl, Karl Mann, Eric Artiges, Anbarasu Lourdusamy, Mark Lathrop, Eva Loth,Yannick Schwartz, Vincent Frouin, Marcella Rietschel, Michael N. Smolka, Andreas Ströhle, Jürgen Gallinat, Maren Struve, Eva Lattka, Melanie Waldenberger, Gunter Schumann, Paul Pavlidis, Daniel Gaudet, Tomáš Paus, and Zdenka Pausova

Part IV: Considerations for Future Action
14. Changes in Adolescents’ Intake of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Sedentary Behavior: Results at 8 Month Mid-Way Assessment of The HEIA Study—A Comprehensive, Multi-Component School-Based Randomized Trial
Mona Bjelland, Ingunn H. Bergh, May Grydeland, Knut-Inge Klepp, Lene F. Andersen, Sigmund A. Anderssen, Yngvar Ommundsen, and Nanna Lien
15. Averting Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in India through Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation: An Economic-Epidemiologic Modeling Study
Sanjay Basu, Sukumar Vellakkal, Sutapa Agrawal, David Stuckler, Barry Popkin, and Shah Ebrahim
16. Big Food, Food Systems, and Global Health
David Stuckler and Marion Nestle
Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editor: Peter D. Vash, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA; Fellow, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists

Peter D. Vash, MD, MPH, FACE, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA Medical Center and Fellow of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, is a board-certified internist specializing in endocrinology and metabolism and a Diplomat in Obesity Medicine. He is the past president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians and served on the Board of the North American Society for the Study of Obesity (NASSO). Dr. Vash works in private practice with patients suffering from obesity and eating disorders and has lectured extensively nationally and internationally on the medical management and treatment of obesity. He has been an invited expert witness to speak before a Senate subcommittee and the FTC concerning medical weight-loss issues and the safety and impact of commercial weight-loss programs. He has written four books: The Fat to Muscle Diet, The Dieter’s Dictionary, A Matter of Fat: A Physician’s Program, and Lose It and Keep It Off. He has served on the board of Shape Magazine, writing numerous articles regarding health, fitness, and weight problems. Dr. Vash has worked closely in consultation with the media (TV, radio, print), aiding them with information and explanations of issues regarding obesity and eating disorders. He is currently the Executive Medical Director of the Lindora Medical Clinics, the largest and oldest medical weight-loss clinic in Southern California.




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