Thinking in Circles About Obesity: Applying Systems Thinking to Weight Management

Part I: Mismanaging the Obesity Threat1. Like Boiled FrogsPart II: How We Changed Our Environment ...And Now Our Environment Is Changing Us2. Unbalanced Act3. Human-Environment Interactions: Not One Way... and Not One-Way4. Tilting the Energy Balance: More Energy In5. Tilting the Energy Balance: Less Energy Out6. Individual Differences7. Is Ad-Lib Behavior Killing Us?Part III: We Can't Manage What We Don't Understand8. The Energy Balance Equation: Reigning Intellectual Paradigm orStraitjacket?9. What We Know That Ain't So10. Closing the Loops on Energy Balance: Energy Output Side11. Closing the Loops on Energy Balance: Energy Input Side12. Beyond Physiology: Closing the Behavior-Physiology Loop13. Looking Back... Looking ForwardPart IV: We Can't Manage What We Mis-Predict14. Learning by Doing15. Give Us the tools, and We Will Finish the Job 16. A Microworld for Weight and Energy Regulation17. Experiment 1: Assessing Weight Loss-Reality versus Fiction18. Experiment 2: Going Ballistic-on a Diet19. Experiment 3: Understanding Why 250 lbs [doesn't equal] 250 lbs20. Experiment 4: Trading Treatment Options-Diet versus Exercise21. PHDs for the Masses? (That's Personal Health Decision support)Part V: Prevention... And Beyond22. The Fat Lady... Models23. The Third Path: Prevention24. Location, Location, Location: Places to Intervene in Systems25. It will Take More than Food Pyramids26. MICROWORLDS R US27. Beyond Prevention