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The understanding, prevention and treatment of overweight




Enviado por Felix Larocca



Partes: 1, 2

    1. Introduction
    2. Elisa
      speaks
    3. The
      Dieter’s Dilemma
    4. The understanding
      of the predicament of obesity
    5. How do we explain
      obesity?
    6. The cerebral
      hypothalamus
    7. Obesity as a
      control issue
    8. Control
      issues
    9. When one goes on a
      diet
    10. To succeed we
      must be in control
    11. Facts and
      fallacies
    12. To be in
      control
    13. The Human Adaptive
      Eating Strategy (ECHA)
    14. The
      Plan
    15. The role of physical
      activity in the treatment and control of
      obesity
    16. Let’s talk
      about the role of exercise in weight
      control
    17. In
      summary

    Introduction:

    The emerging awareness of the growing problem with
    obesity (and its dire implications and complications) in the
    United States of America has led to frantic efforts by various
    government and health agencies to attempt to address, modify,
    prevent and, of course, eradicate the presence of this public
    health menace.

    Historically much can be said about the rise of this
    phenomenon and of its continuing persistence. The latter, despite
    the claims made by "nutritionists", the diet industry and
    so-called "experts", who maintain to have developed methods that
    can effectively control it, that
    can cure it, or if not, that can modify its outcome.

    Al Gore, not a suitable presidential
    hopeful…

    General wisdom maintains that obesity exists in a large
    percentage of the American population. And it does, as it exists
    among the well-to-do (times past, considered an aberration), the
    educated, the professionals, children of all ages, the clergy
    and, even the poor; as it is practically the case with everyone
    else living in the Western world.

    Obesity is considered the antithesis of elegance, of
    fitness and of beauty. The apparent contradiction presented by
    the recent successes of corpulent performers, does not detract
    from the fact that those afflicted with this serious problem
    still wage (and many, secretively continue to battle) an endless
    struggle with this polymorphous dilemma responsible for their
    unflattering figures.

    In the United States presidential candidates maintain a
    careful watch over their weight and its projection for a
    successful campaign. In other countries (Europeans for the most
    part) the same phenomenon seems apparent, yet somewhat minimized
    by the memories of the deprivations and scarcities of recent
    famine and warfare.

    In the Dominican Republic, where we now live, hardly any
    candidate for high office is obese
    (although quite a few suffer ostensible forms of overweight).
    Even then, those who are fat or who tend towards corpulence are
    eager to admit their dedication at attaining the goal of a normal
    weight as soon as conditions would allow it — something that
    has eluded many.

    No one with a sound mind dares to extol the virtues or
    desirability of corpulence, or to assert the benignity of this
    trait.

    Be as it may, at the time of this writing, obesity
    remain a conundrum without resolution, affecting an estimated 65%
    of all Americans.

    The purpose of this essay is to provide the interested
    student with an up-to-date, thorough, concise, and authoritative
    analysis of this enigma, while at once advancing a methodology
    aimed at its resolution.

    She is not like the rest of
    us!

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