Abstract

1: Introduction2: Jon Wisman & Kevin Capehart: Creative Destruction, Economic Insecurity, Stress, and Epidemic ObesityPart 1: Biological Fundamentals3: Robin Dunbar: Obesity: An Evolutionary Perspective4.: Trent Smith: Behavioural Biology and ObesityPart 2: Social Stress5.: Adam Drewnowski: Spatial Analyses of Obesity and Poverty6: Ruth Bell: Spatial Analyses of Obesity and Poverty7: Peter Whybrow: Time Urgency, Sleep Loss and ObesityPart 3: Sicuak Diffusion of Obesity and its Causes8: John Komlos: The Transition to Post-Industrial BMI Values in the United States9: Thorkild Sorensen: The History of the Obesity Epidemic in Denmark10: Kate Pickett: Income Inequality and Psychosocial Pathways to Obesity11: Avner Offer: 1. Obesity Under Affluence Varies by Welfare Regimes.