Nudge-it: Understanding obesity

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: Unknown

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大学或机构: The University of Edinburgh(爱丁堡大学)

课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/nudgeit

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Obesity is a huge health, social and economic problem affecting millions of people globally. Currently, it’s a problem without a solution - diets don’t work, drug therapies are poor, and surgical solutions are only offered to those suffering serious ill-health. In addition, there are many misconceptions about appetite, diet and exercise, and about the best ways to treat or prevent obesity.

This course will be taught by partners in the EU-funded research project Nudge-it (www.nudge-it.eu). This project brings together dozens of experts in neurobiology, experimental psychology, functional brain imaging, behavioural economics and computational modelling from 16 universities in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, the US and New Zealand. The overall aim is to better understand decision-making in food choice and to contribute to improving public health policy.

In this course we will discuss the facts and misconceptions around obesity, and the gaps in the scientific knowledge. We’ll discuss key physiological and psychological concepts around the brain’s control of appetite and body weight, and reflect on the power of these systems - how they make weight gain easy and weight loss hard. We will describe new approaches to the treatment and prevention of obesity, and give you the opportunity to reflect on your own knowledge and assumptions around the causes of obesity.

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  • Week 1: What causes obesity? An outline of the problem: what we know, what we don’t know.
  • Week 2: The physiological battle/The psychological battle. The neurobiological and hormonal control of appetite, and the psychological control of appetite - reward, habit , stress and emotional influences.
  • Week 3: New solutions: the importance of early-life experience/interventions using behavioural economics. Evidence for early-life nutrition influences on adult behaviour, current ideas around healthy eating in children. How behavioural economics may deliver new ways of changing choice behaviour, with an emphasis on childhood and socio-economic status.
  • Week 4: Summary and reflection. An overview of what we’ve learned and discussed, a chance to reflect and develop ideas to improve understanding or activity in your own community.

EU logo and statement. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement n*607310

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Nudge-it is an multi-disciplinary European research project studying new ways of establishing and reinforcing healthy eating habits. Join us to learn about eating, appetite and obesity.

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