作者: Mary H. Sailors , Molly S. Bray
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-355-8_5
关键词: Public health 、 Genetic variation 、 Environmental health 、 Heritability 、 Disease 、 Weight loss 、 Biology 、 Obesity 、 Body mass index 、 Overweight
摘要: Obesity, currently affecting more than one third of all adults in the United States, is a complex disease with multifactorial etiology involving genetic and environmental factors. Public health prevention programs designed to reduce risk occurrence obesity overweight commonly focuses on modifiable environments behaviors such as diet physical activity varied results among individuals. This heterogeneity response body weight interventions at least part origin. While it widely accepted, variation plays substantial role determination composition, fat topography, outcomes, factors can also affect an individual’s changes nutrition activity. The present chapter examines relationships between activity/exercise genes related mass composition fatness obesity.