Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Abdominal Obesity

Features:

• Serves as a starting point for in-depth discussions in academic settings that will lead to revised and updated treatment options
• Offers detailed, well-documented reviews outlining the various dietary approaches to visceral obesity with their benefits and failures
• Includes updated research on the gut microbiome, FGF 21 and dietary foods and supplements

Table Of Contents:

Section I. Overview of Obesity and Population Studies

1. Sleep, Abdominal Obesity, and Metabolic Syndrome

2. The new anthropometrics and abdominal obesity: a body shape index, hip index, and anthropometric risk index

3. Comparing measures of obesity: waist circumference, Waist-hip and waist-height ratios

4. Abdominal Obesity and the Interaction between Adipocytes and Osteoblasts

5. Pharmacologic Agents Chapter for Abdominal Obesity

6. Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbid Obesity: Technique and Outcomes

7. Comparing Measures of Obesity: Waist Circumference, waist-hip and waist-height ratios

8. Abdominal obesity in children: the role of physical activity, sedentary behavior and sleep time

9. The concept of a web-based calculator for supporting waist circumference interpretation among pediatric patients

10. Remission of metabolic syndrome after sleeve gastrectomy

11. Nutrients and Obesity

12. The role of physical activity in adult obesity
Section II. Mechanisms of Obesity

13. Fibroblast growth factor 21 as a regulator of energy metabolism in the liver and adipose tissue

14. Genetics of Central Obesity and Body Fat

15. Stress-Induced Eating Dampens Physiological and Behavioral Stress Responses

16. An emerging role of angiotensin receptor binding protein ATRAP as a possible novel player in pathophysiology of visceral obesity and metabolic disorders

17. Ethnicity and Cut-Off Values in Obesity
Section III. Role of Dietary Supplements in Obesity

18. Regulation of the Energy balance

19. Using Psyllium to Prevent and Treat Obesity Comorbidities

20. Dairy Whey Proteins and Obesity
Section IV. Foods and Macronutrients in Obesity

21. The Mediterranean diet: what it is and its effect on abdominal obesity

22. International aspects: Abdominal obesity in Greece

23. Artificial sweeteners: implications for weight loss in obesity

24. Coffee Intake and Obesity
Section V. Micronutrients and Dietary Components in Obesity

25. Conjugated linoleic acid in human health: Effects on weight control

26. Serum magnesium and abdominal obesity and its consequences

27. Integrative Health and Medicine: Dietary supplements and modalities for the treatment of obesity

28. Anthocyanins: What They Are and How They Relate to Obesity Prevention

29. The Positive Effects of Olive Oil Towards Lipotoxicity and Obesity

30. Effects of diet-induced early-stage obesity on a low-testosterone Gottingen minipig

31. The Effects of Fiber on Visceral Fat

32. Carotenoids as Nutraceutical Therapy for Visceral Obesity

33. Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding (LAGB) as a Bariatric Procedure