Science of Long-Term Weight Loss Online CE Exam With Ebook, The

This package includes the following:

• The Science of Long-Term Weight Loss ebook
• Online continuing education exam

The Science of Long-Term Weight Loss provides a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to help clients and patients achieve long-term weight loss success. Taking into consideration decades of research from experts in the field, it embraces a multidisciplinary approach and the use of the complexity science approach to better understand the issues surrounding long-term weight loss.

The Science of Long-Term Weight Loss begins by discussing the origins of the obesity epidemic and theoretical strategies to support weight loss. The authors use the complexity science approach to explain the factors that contribute to the prevalence of obesity, such as genetics and public policy, and explores behavioral influences on body composition, such as physical activity and nutritional intake.

Sustainable long-term weight loss solutions and the prevention of weight regain are studied in depth, and societal factors such as the environment and food production are considered. The text covers a broad range of topics, including food addiction, exercise resistance, night eating syndrome, emotional regulation, continuous care, problem-solving, accountability, and group support.

Case studies throughout offer a glimpse into the struggles and successes involved with long-term weight loss.

As a resource for understanding the multifaceted issues surrounding obesity and weight loss, this ebook is invaluable to those studying or encountering obesity, including certified fitness and health professionals working with clients or patients who need long-term strategies for weight management.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the prevalence and etiology of obesity.
• Explain how individual and environmental contributors make obesity treatment and prevention complex and difficult.
• Understand the theories for explaining the obesity epidemic.
• Describe the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and young people, and list the factors that contribute to childhood obesity.
• Understand energy balance and the predictors of weight loss in weight loss studies.
• Describe the recommendations for using exercise to lose weight and maintain lost weight.
• Distinguish disordered eating behaviors from healthy eating behaviors.
• Understand the effectiveness of weight loss maintenance interventions as well as best practices for weight loss maintenance.
• Explain how societal obesity interventions require a complex system of policy changes, involving government and industry.
• Describe behavioral approaches to obesity treatment, and recognize the need for longer-term interventions in obesity treatment.
• Understand the potential of group work, social support, motivational interviewing, self-determination theory, self-experimentation, and other intervention attributes in successful weight loss and weight loss maintenance.
• Identify the basic components of an effective long-term weight loss program and the skills clients need to develop to be successful so that a comprehensive program can be designed, implemented, and tailored over time.

Audience

Certified fitness professionals and personal trainers who work on weight loss strategies with clients or patients.

Chapter 1. The Origin of the Obesity Epidemic: Implications for Long-Term Weight Loss
Chapter 2. Theoretical Approaches to Obesity and Weight Loss
Chapter 3. Obesity: The Interaction of Genetics and the Environment
Chapter 4. Childhood Obesity
Chapter 5. Interventions for Childhood Obesity
Chapter 6. Interventions for Weight Loss in Adults
Chapter 7. Physical Activity and Weight Loss
Chapter 8. Eating Behavior and Disorders of Eating
Chapter 9. Long-Term Weight Loss and the Prevention of Weight Regain
Chapter 10. Environment, Public Policy, and Long-Term Weight Loss
Chapter 11. Alternative Approaches for Long-Term Weight Loss (Part I)
Chapter 12. Alternative Approaches for Long-Term Weight Loss (Part II)
Chapter 13. Developing and Refining Long-Term Weight Loss Plans for Your Clients

Timothy G. Lohman, PhD, is a professor emeritus at the University of Arizona and serves as the president of the Global Health and Body Composition Institute. He previously served as the director of the Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and a leading scientist in the field of body composition assessment.

Lohman is a coeditor of both ACSM's Body Composition Assessment and Human Body Composition, Second Edition. He is a reviewer of several journals, including Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, International Journal of Sports Nutrition, International Journal of Obesity, and Obesity Research.

Lohman has spent the last 15 years researching and writing about long-term weight loss to improve understanding of the obesity epidemic and develop better long-term solutions to weight loss.

Laurie A. Milliken, PhD, FACSM, is an associate professor in the exercise and health sciences department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a coeditor of ACSM's Body Composition Assessment and CEO of the Global Health and Body Composition Institute. She has served as a peer reviewer for leading scientific journals such as Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Journal of Applied Physiology, and European Journal of Applied Physiology.

In the New England chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), Milliken has served as the president, an executive committee member, the chair of the Continuing Education Committee, the chair of the Diversity Committee, and a state representative. In addition to being a fellow of the ACSM, she has served on the ACSM Research Awards Committee and as an editorial board member of ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal.

She has researched physical activity and strength training among children and families and is currently interested in body composition changes in response to long-term exercise interventions.