EAN: 9781493963843

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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 policymakers 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.

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