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Book Title
Thinking in Circles About Obesity-Tarek K. A. K. A. Hamid
ISBN
9780387094687
EAN
9780387094687
Subject Area
Health Education
Publication Name
Thinking in Circles about Obesity: Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Subject
Medicine
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
235mm
Author
Tarek K. A. Hamid
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
822g
Number of Pages
468 Pages

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Today's children may well become the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will be shorter than that of their parents. The culprit, public health experts agree, is obesity and its associated health problems. Heretofore, the strategy to slow obesity's galloping pace has been driven by what the philosopher Karl Popper calls ''the bucket theory of the mind. '' When minds are seen as containers and public understanding is viewed as being a function of how many scientific facts are known, the focus is naturally on how many scientific facts public minds contain. But the strategy has not worked. Despite all the diet books, the wide availability of reduced-calorie and reduced-fat foods, and the broad publicity about the obesity problem, America's waistline continues to expand. It will take more than food pyramid images or a new nutritional guideline to stem obesity's escalation. Albert Einstein once observed that the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them, and that we would have to shift to a new level, a deeper level of thinking,tosolvethem. Thisbookarguesfor,andpresents,adifferent perspective for thinking about and addressing the obesity problem: a systems thinking perspective. While already commonplace in engineering and in business, the use of systems thinking in personal health is less widely adopted. Yet this is precisely the setting where complexities are most problematicandwherethestakesarehighest.

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Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN-13
9780387094687
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Subject Area
Health Education
Author
Tarek K. A. Hamid
Publication Name
Thinking in Circles about Obesity: Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
468 Pages

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Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
822g

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Tarek K. A. Hamid
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