Lifestyle Is Driving Us Toward Impending Demise

Lifestyle Is Driving Us toward Impending Demise General This book is comprised of fifteen up to date chapters prologue epilogue and appendix This manuscript discusses many important and contemporary hot topics such as obesity dietary regimen exercise health care system texting while driving immigration and airport dilemmas This book also entails topics such as insomnia sleep deprivation somnambulism sex and money Chapter 1 Obesity This chapter entitled Obesity covers extensively the epidemiology prevalence in the USA classification and identification of obesity in children and adults It describes primary obesity vs secondary lifelong obesity vs adult onset obesity and gradual weight reduction via behavior changes diet and exercise This book also illustrates the differential diagnosis of childhood s obesity and its dire consequences The role of genetic central nervous system and endocrine gland deficiencies is discussed The problem of obesity epidemic with its catastrophic consequences is displayed The strong behavior changes willpower are discussed in detail Definition etiology pathogenesis of obesity and deleterious effect of sedentary life are described thoroughly The importance of body mass index BMI and waist circumference size is described in detail Waist reflects the amount of visceral fat each individual carries and may be a better prediction of obesity than BMI The important cause of obesity in the USA such as sedentary life excessive caloric intake and lack of willpower is discussed in detail Finally the prevention and management of obesity are explored Chapter 2 Food and Dietary Regimen This chapter discusses the benefit of Mediterranean diet including olive oil In this chapter the good the bad cholesterol triglyceride organic vs genetic engineering food as well as antioxidant foods are discussed in detail This chapter also describes in detail the role of saturated polyunsaturated and mono