Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Abdominal Obesity

Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson’s career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models.

• SECTION1: Epidemiology of Abdominal ObesitySECTION 2: Visceral Obesity: Diabetes and Heart DiseaseSECTION 3: Clinical Surgery in Management of Abdominal Obesity SECTION 4: Nutrition in Clinical Therapy of Abdominal Obesity DiseasesSECTION 5: Exercise and Environment in Altering Abdominal ObesitySECTION 6: Foods and Visceral Fat Accumulation and RemovalSECTION 7: Herbs and Extracts: Role in Abdominal FatSECTION 8: Dietary Supplements and Visceral ObesitySECTION 8: Dietary Supplements and Visceral ObesitySECTION 9: Dietary Macromolecules and Abdominal ObesitySECTION10: Nutrients as Modulators of Visceral FatSECTION11: Hormones and non-Nutrients as Modulators of Visceral FatSECTION12: Dairy Products and Visceral Fat in HealthSECTION 13: Genetic Regulation and Mechanisms of Obesity(55 total chapters)