Parental Obesity: Intergenerational Programming and Consequences

Editors: Green, Lucy R., Hester, Robert L. (Eds.)
​Casts new light on the mechanisms, potential targets of future interventions, and the challenges that must be overcome to break the intergenerational cycle of obesity
Offers a valuable source of information for students, clinicians, researchers and health policy makers
All chapters were written by leading scientists, clinicians and policy makers in this field

In this book, leading figures in the field of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease provide up-to-date information from human clinical trials, cohorts, and animal physiology experiments to reveal the interdependence between parental obesity and health of the offspring. Obesity of the mother and father produces obesity in their offspring, so we are caught up in an intergenerational cycle, which means that even our children’s future health is in peril. This book gives a timely and much-needed synthesis of the mechanisms, potential targets of future interventions, and the challenges that need to be overcome in order to break the intergenerational cycle of obesity. This has profound implications for the way in which scientific, clinical and health policy activities are to be directed in order to combat the so-called epidemic of obesity, as well as diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. The book will be of interest to students, clinicians, researchers and health policy makers who are either seeking an introduction to the area of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease or have a specific interest in the pathogenesis of obesity.

Number of Pages
XII, 389
Number of Illustrations and Tables
10 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics
Human Physiology
Animal Physiology
Gene Expression
Maternal and Child Health
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention



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