Obesity Before Birth Maternal and prenatal influences on the offspring /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lustig, Robert H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Endocrine Updates, 30
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Food > Biotechnology.; Endocrinology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Human Genetics.; Food Science.

Obesity obeys the First Law of Thermodynamics. The routine assumption is that obesity is the result of a mismatch between calories in and calories out; in other words, the result of two divergent behaviors. However, there is mounting evidence that biochemical forces can drive obligate weight gain, a...