Obesity Prevention: The Role of Brain and Society on Individual Behavior

by Laurette Dube, Antoine Bechara, Alain Dagher

Over the years, approaches to obesity prevention and treatment have gone from focusing on genetic and other biological factors to exploring a diversity of diets and individual behavior modification interventions anchored primarily in the power of the mind, to the recent shift focusing on societal interventions to design "temptation-proof" physical, social, and economic environments. In spite of repeated calls to action, including those of the World...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0123743877
• ISBN13: 9780123743879
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.6" x 9.3"