Parental Obesity: Intergenerational Programming and Consequences
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 heal
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Lucy R. Green Robert L. Hester Editors
Parental Obesity: Intergenerational Programming and Consequences
Physiology in Health and Disease
Published on behalf of The American Physiological Society by Springer
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Lucy R. Green • Robert L. Hester Editors
Parental Obesity: Intergenerational Programming and Consequences
Editors Lucy R. Green Institute of Developmental Sciences University of Southampton Southampton, Hampshire UK
Robert L. Hester Medical Center The University of Mississippi Jackson, Mississippi USA
Physiology in Health and Disease ISBN 978-1-4939-6384-3 ISBN 978-1-4939-6386-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-6386-7
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Preface
We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that’s the end. Hamlet. A tragedy by William Shakespeare (1599/1601).
There is more to our state of adiposity than simply what quality of meal we are offering the maggots upon our demise. Obesity brings with it greater risk of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders and cancer. It no longer seems likely that the escalating incidence of obe
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