Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled:
- Introduction
- Identification
- Energy balance
- Factors in the development of obesity
- Consequences of obesity
- Perspectives on the future
- Adverse effects of vitamins and minerals: concepts
- Derivation of the tolerable upper intake level
- Use of tolerable upper intake levels as dietary reference standards
- Further reading
- Introduction
- Identification
- Energy balance
- Factors in the development of obesity
- Consequences of obesity
- Perspectives on the future
- Adverse effects of vitamins and minerals: concepts
- Derivation of the tolerable upper intake level
- Use of tolerable upper intake levels as dietary reference standards
- Further reading
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Nutrition and Metabolism |
| Subtitle of host publication | Second Edition |
| Editors | Dr Susan A Lanham-New, Professor Ian A Macdonald, Associate Professor Helen M Roche |
| Place of Publication | Oxford |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Chapter | 16 |
| Pages | 360-377 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781444327779 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781405168083 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2010 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Body fat measure, laboratory methods - dual- energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), total body water and hydrodensitometry
- Body mass index (BMI) - recommended international screening tool in identifying obesity
- Dietary reference standards - dietary intake nutritional adequacy evaluation
- Genetic factors - and body fatness heritability
- Genetic mutations and obesity
- Obesity, increasing - in developed and developing countries
- Obesity, increasing risk of chronic diseases
- Overnutrition
- Racial differences in obesity prevalence - differences in energy expenditure
- Triceps skinfold (TSF) thickness measure - index of subcutaneous fatness
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