Thinking in Circles About Obesity Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management - Hamid, Tarek K. A.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus, 2009)
Mismanaging the Obesity Threat -- Like Boiled Frogs -- How We Changed Our Environment, and Now Our Environment Is Changing Us -- Unbalanced Act -- Human-Environment Interactions: Not One Way ... and Not One-Way -- Tilting the Energy Balance: More Energy In -- Tilting the Energy Balance: Less Energy Out -- Individual Differences -- Is Ad-Lib Behavior Killing Us? -- We Can't Manage What We Don't Understand -- The Energy Balance Equation: Reigning Intellectual Paradigm or Straitjacket? -- What We Know that Ain't So -- Closing the Loops on Energy Balance: Energy Output Side -- Closing the Loops on Energy Balance: Energy Input Side -- Beyond Physiology: Closing the Behavior-Physiology Loop -- Looking Back and Looking Forward -- We Can't Manage What We Mis-Predict -- Learning by Doing -- "Give Us the Tools, and We Will Finish the Job" -- A Microworld for Weight and Energy Regulation -- Experiment 1: Assessing Weight Loss-Reality Versus Fiction -- Experiment 2: Going Ballistic-On a Diet -- Experiment 3: Understanding Why 250 Pounds Does Not Equal 250 Pounds -- Experiment 4: Trading Treatment Options-Diet Versus Exercise -- PhDs for the Masses? (That's Personal Health Decision support) -- Prevention and Beyond -- The Fat Lady ... Models -- The Third Path: Prevention -- Location, Location, Location: Places to Intervene in Systems -- It Will Take More Than Food Pyramids -- Microworlds ? Us -- Beyond Prevention.
Keywords: Health psychology; Primary care (Medicine).; Health promotion; Health Psychology; Primary Care Medicine; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention