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HLTH 4150: Public Health Issues in Obesity and Eating Disorders: Course Materials

The Science of Fat, Lecture 1: Deconstructing Obesity

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This lecture covers the basics of understanding obesity from the definition of the condition and quantifying it through BMI, as well as information about the chemical that is responsible for obesity, Leptin.

Obesity Economics

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This course introduces students to the economic approach to evaluating obesity. It focuses on attributable health care expenditures, quality adjusted life years, productivity changes, consumer sovereignty, and the incentives and regulations that can be used to change individual adult, parent, and child behavior.

Psychology, Emotion and Motivation, Hunger and Eating

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By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Describe how hunger and eating are regulated
Differentiate between levels of overweight and obesity and the associated health consequences
Explain the health consequences resulting from anorexia and bulimia nervosa

Endotext Textbook: Obesity

Obesity textbook
Endotext is a unique 3 million-word authoritative, comprehensive, continuously up-dated, downloadable, free online textbook, written by 400 experts, and oriented to physicians caring for patients with Endocrine disease.
Editor: Jonathan Purnell, MD, and Leigh Perreault, MD