Current guidelines recommend that" overweight" and" obese" individuals lose weight
through engaging in lifestyle modification involving diet, exercise and other behavior …

Around the world obesity and diabetes are climbing to epidemic proportion, even in
countries previously characterized by scarcity. Likewise, people from low-income and …

Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease
distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context? Because the lived realities …

Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the …

OBJECTIVE—To determine the effects of a culturally competent diabetes self-management
intervention in Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND …

“Making the Mexican Diabetic presents a finely-honed ethnography. Montoya is particularly
attuned to the sensitivity and conundrums surrounding the use of DNA drawn from a …

Small island developing states face challenges in cultivating healthy food systems and are
currently bearing substantial burdens of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Local food production …

Why do African Americans have exceptionally high rates of hypertension, diabetes, and
obesity? Is it their genes? Their disease-prone culture? Their poor diets? Such racist …

This article is an examination of academic, corporate, and state‐funded alliance of
molecular, biological, computer, and clinical scientists who are conducting research into the …

The objective of this research is to identify the sociodemographic, environmental, and
lifestyle factors associated with the geographic variability of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) …