Obesity Research

The book presents a major threat to the health across all ages, races, and socioeconomic groups, and in particular within disadvantaged and underserved communities. Obesity is a major contributor to serious health conditions including type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Promoting healthy weight requires concerted efforts, including quality improvement, from health care, public health and communities.
The book offers prompt publication of high-quality original research and presents new information. Specifically, the intent is to address the following areas: in the areas of clinical nutrition medicine, pharmacology, nutrition medicine, genetics, adipogenesis, behavioral epidemiology, biophysics and lipid metabolism,, nutritional epidemiology, phenotyping, fat cell physiology, aging, neuroscience, transgenic models, pediatric obesity, and adipocyte cell biology and seeks to address quality improvements, emerging models and best practices with respect to obesity prevention.