1st Edition

Childhood Obesity Causes, Consequences, and Intervention Approaches

Edited By Michael I. Goran Copyright 2017
    524 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    524 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and continues to increase in prevalence in almost all countries in which it has been studied, including developed and developing countries around the globe. The causes of obesity are complex and multi-factorial. Childhood obesity becomes a life-long problem in most cases and is associated with long term chronic disease risk for a variety of diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, as well as psychosocial as issues and obesity seems to affect almost every organ system in the body.



    In recent years there has been tremendous progress in the understanding of this problem and in strategies for prevention and treatment in the pediatric years. Childhood Obesity: Causes, Consequences, and Intervention Approaches presents current reviews on the complex problem of obesity from the multi-level causes throughout early life before adulthood and the implications for this for long-term disease risk. It reviews numerous types of strategies that have been used to address this issue from conventional clinical management to global policy strategies attempting to modify the global landscape of food, nutrition, and physical activity. Each chapter is written by a global authority in his or her respective field with a focus on reviewing the current status and recent developments.



    The book features information on contributing factors to obesity, including developmental origins, social/family, birth cohort studies, influence of ethnicity, and global perspectives. It takes a life-course approach to the subject matter and includes exhaustive treatment of contributing factors to childhood obesity, such as assessment, environmental factors, nutrition and dietary factors, host factors, interventions and treatment, consequences, and further action for future prevention. This broad range of topics relevant to the rapidly changing field of childhood obesity is suitable for students, health care professionals, physicians, and researchers.

    EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN DIFFERENT POPULATIONS

    Epidemiology of Childhood Obesity and Associated Risk Factors: An Overview
    Alison E. Field

    Racial and Ethnic Disparities In Prevalence And Risk Factors For Childhood Obesity
    Claudia Toledo-Coral

    Global Perspectives Of Childhood Obesity: Prevalence, Contributing Factors and Prevention
    Youfa Wang

    Economic Considerations in Childhood Obesity
    John Cawley and Ashlesha Datar

    Assessment of Body Composition and Fat Distribution in Infants, Children and Adolescents
    Elizabeth M Widen and Dympna Gallagher

    NUTRITIONAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO CHILDHOOD OBESITY

    The Influence Of Daily Eating Patterns On Weight Status: A Review Of The Evidence On Breakfast Consumption, Snacking, And Eating Frequency
    Stacy A. Blondin and Christina D. Economos

    Portion sizes in Childhood Obesity
    Katherine Keller, Tanja Kral and Jennifer Fisher

    Role Of Satiety Responsiveness In Childhood Obesity
    Myles S Faith, SUNY Buffalo and Adam C Danley

    Food Reward and Appetite Regulation in Children
    Kathleen A Page

    Food Reinforcement and Childhood Obesity
    Katelyn A Carr, Tinuke Oluyomi Daniel, and Leonard H Epstein

    Breastfeeding And Infant Obesity
    David Fields

    INDIVIDUAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO AND/OR ASSOCIATED WITH CHILDHOOD OBESITY

    Prenatal Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity
    Suzanne Phelan & Alison Ventura, California Polytechnic State University. San Luis Obispo, CA

    Genetics of Childhood Obesity
    Sani M. Roy, Patrick C. Hanley, Jennifer Kelley, Shana E. McCormack and Struan F.A. Grant

    Childhood Obesity - Epigenetic Factors
    Keith M Godfrey, Karen A. Lillycrop and Robert Murray

    Parent and Family-Level Factors Associated with Childhood Obesity
    Kyung E Rhee and Kerri N Boutelle

    Social Networks and Childhood Obesity
    Kayla de la Haye and Sarah-Jeanne Salvy

    Role of the Built Environment in Childhood Obesity
    Deborah Cohen

    Influence of Stress On Obesity Development In Children
    Sydney O’Connor, Eleanor Tate and Genevieve Fridlund Dunton

    Early Toxicant Exposures and Development Of Obesity In Childhood
    Yun Liu and Karen E Peterson

    Impact of Environmental Obesogens: Focus on Mechanisms Linking to Childhood Obesity
    Bassem M Shoucri and Bruce Blumberg

    Potential Role of the Gut Microbiome in the Development of Childhood Obesity
    Christopher Mullan and Jacob E Friedman

    Adipose Tissue Development
    Michael E Symonds, Shalini Ojha and Helen Budge

    BEHAVIORAL AND METABOLIC CONSEQUENCES OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY

    Self-Esteem And Quality Of Life In Childhood Obesity
    Andrew Hill

    Childhood Obesity: Implications for Neurocognitive Functioning
    Ashley A Martin, Sara L Hargrave and Terry L Davidson

    Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes in Pediatric Populations
    Nicola Santoro and Sonia Caprio

    Pediatric Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Recent Advances in Diagnostics and Emerging Therapeutics
    Elizabeth L. Yu, MD, Kimberly P. Newton, MD, Jonathan A. Africa, MD and Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, MD

    Sleep Outcomes and Childhood Obesity
    Kristie R Ross and Susan Redline

    TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY

    Family-Based Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Obesity
    Dorothy J. Van Buren, Katherine N. Balantekin, Sara D. McMullin, and Denise E. Wilfley

    Advances in Pharmacological Treatment of Pediatric Obesity
    Ovidiu A. Galescu and Jack A. Yanovski

    Surgical Treatment of Adolescent Obesity
    Andrew James Beamish and Torsten Olbers

    Physical Activity Interventions for Treatment and Prevention of Childhood Obesity
    Bernard Gutin, and Scott Owens

    Life Course Approach to the Prevention of Childhood Obesity
    Regien Biesma and Mark Hanson

    Early Life Interventions for Childhood Obesity Prevention
    Paige K Berger and Leann L Birch

    Home/Family-Based Strategies for Prevention of Obesity in Infancy and Early Childhood
    Sarah-Jeanne Salvy and Kayla de la Haye

    Community and School-Based Interventions for Childhood Obesity
    Noe C. Crespo and John P Elder

    Targeting Reduction in Consumption of Added Sugars for Addressing Childhood Obesity: Translating Research to Clinical Practice
    Cara B Ebbeling and Melissa Gallagher Landry

    Lifestyle Interventions for the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Obese Children and Youth
    Micah L Olson and Gabriel Q Shaibi

    Use of Mobile Health Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity
    Cheng K Fred Wen, Brooke Bell and Donna Spruijt-Metz

    Complementary and Integrative Health Strategies for Addressing Childhood Obesity
    Marc Weigensberg

    PUBLIC HEALTH AND POLICY BASED INTERVENTIONS

    Food Advertising and Marketing Issues Relevant to Childhood Obesity
    Tim Lobstein

    Connecting the Dots: Translating Systems Thinking into Innovative Solutions for Childhood Obesity
    Terry T-K Huang and Emily B Ferris

    Food Policy for Childhood Obesity Prevention: A Global Policy Perspective
    Alanna Soupen, Stefanie Vandevijvere, Hillary Tolley and Boyd Swinburn

    Biography

    Michael I. Goran is a professor of preventive medicine and pediatrics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is also the founding director of the USC Childhood Obesity Research Center and holds the Dr. Robert C and Veronica Atkins Endowed Chair in Childhood Obesity and Diabetes. In addition, he serves as co-director of the USC Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester in the UK. His work focuses on understanding the metabolic and nutritional factors linking obesity to increased disease risk during growth and development and using this information as a basis for developing interventions for prevention and risk reduction. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles and reviews and is the co-editor of the Handbook of Pediatric Obesity.

    Goran presents readers with a collection of academic and research perspectives on the causes and consequences of childhood obesity as well as various intervention approaches.