285 research outputs found
Introduction
No full textThis chapter discusses how to define obesity in children for epidemiological purposes to monitor and compare prevalence at the population level. The increasing problem of overweight and obesity in children and adults highlight the limits of personal responsibility when considering daily food consumption. Obesity and overweight are persistent conditions and are compounded by the gradual age-dependant involuntary weight gain that occurs in adulthood. In order to understand the unconscious weight gain, the chapter addresses the key risk periods across the life course. The chapter lists the practical measures for the assessment of an obese person. New management packages, with better-defined goals and success criteria, have emerged, and so diagnostic criteria have come under new scrutiny. Importantly, in order to establish diagnostic criteria, a robust definition of obesity is required, to characterise the disease. Body mass index (BMI) is an attractive measure because it is an easy, cheap and non-invasive means of assessing excess body fat
Heidegger and Religion 4: Heidegger and Religion: from Neoplatonism to the Posthuman
No full textPapers from the 4th Heidegger and Religion colloquium, held at Christ Church, May 24th 2008.The attached file contains the programme of the workshop 'Heidegger and Religion: from Neoplatonism to the Posthuman' (24 May 2008, Christ Church, Oxford) and full-text of the following papers presented at the workshop: Wayne Hankey - 'The Ineffable immediately Incarnate: Interplay between French 20th Century Neoplatonism and Heidegger'; Aidan Nichols - 'Von Balthasar and Heidegger'; Bradley Onishi - 'Heidegger and information technologies: tracing views of the posthuman'; Mark Sinclair - 'Heidegger and the technological Absolute' . Each author holds the copyright for their paper
sj-docx-1-wso-10.1177_17474930231201360 – Supplemental material for Secondary prevention of stroke. A telehealth-delivered physical activity and diet pilot randomized trial (ENAbLE-pilot)
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-wso-10.1177_17474930231201360 for Secondary prevention of stroke. A telehealth-delivered physical activity and diet pilot randomized trial (ENAbLE-pilot) by Coralie English, Emily R Ramage, John Attia, Julie Bernhardt, Billie Bonevski, Meredith Burke, Margaret Galloway, Graeme J Hankey, Heidi Janssen, Richard Lindley, Elizabeth Lynch, Chris Oldmeadow, Catherine M Said, Neil J Spratt, Karly Zacharia, Lesley MacDonald-Wicks and Amanda Patterson in International Journal of Stroke</p
Victim of the Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS)
No full textAn affidavit written to invalidate purported distortions and false accusations made against the author in two books published using research material collected by Rosalie Hankey Wax during de Cristoforo's incarceration at Tule Lake. The books are "Doing Fieldwork: Warnings and Advice" by Rosalie H. Wax and "The Spoilage" by Dorothy Swaine Thomas and Richard S. Nishimoto with contributions by Rosalie Hankey. The affidavit outlines and refutes information collected by Wax while working on the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS).The Robert Billigmeier collection is comprised of materials collected during his work and stay at the Tule Lake incarceration camp conducting research for the University of California’s Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). The collection includes: photographs taken during his time at Tule Lake; a scrapbook created by students at Tule Lake in 1942; camp publications; reports and manuscripts; and student writings. Several of the reports and manuscripts draw from the personality cards written by students in the Tule Lake incarceration camp
Weight loss interventions in specific groups: Adults with intellectual disabilities and obesity
No full textTo understand the needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDs), this chapter will start with
a definition of ID, a summary of the prevalence
studies of obesity and an outline of the determinants of obesity in this population group. National
clinical guidelines [1–2] recommend the use of
multicomponent weight loss interventions for the
management of obesity. Therefore, the issues
around multicomponent weight loss interventions
for adults with ID and obesity are discussed in the
final part of the chapter
Consequences and comorbidities associated with obesity
No full textThis chapter reviews the importance of diabetes as a major complication of obesity, starting with examining the epidemiological relationship between diabetes and obesity. It is clear from the epidemiological data reported that obesity is strongly associated with onset and, in particular, the premature onset, of type 2 diabetes. However, in established heart disease and heart failure, obesity is associated with lower mortality. The chapter considers the epidemiological evidence linking adiposity with the development of cancer, and describes the proposed mechanisms by which excess body fat may impact on cancer risk. The global prevalence of osteoarthritis continues to rise, both because of an ageing population as well as because of the current obesity epidemic, with obesity in the elderly becoming an increasing problem. The chapter explains individual psychosocial factors and views them as part of a vicious circle, including personal beliefs. The combination of binge eating and obesity is particularly problematic with regard to comorbidity and risk
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