Thinking in Circles About Obesity

Thinking in Circles About Obesity
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 463
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ISBN-10 : 9780387094694
ISBN-13 : 0387094695
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Book Synopsis Thinking in Circles About Obesity by : Tarek K. A. Hamid

Download or read book Thinking in Circles About Obesity written by Tarek K. A. Hamid and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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