Table of Contents:
  • History, definition, and diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome
  • Insulin resistance in the metabolic syndrome
  • Is it necessary to redefine the metabolic syndrome?
  • Is insulin resistance a disorder of the brain?
  • Obesity
  • Perinatal nutrition and obesity
  • Essential hypertension
  • Dietary factors and hypertension
  • Is hypertension a disorder of the brain?
  • Type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus with particular reference to hypothalamus
  • Insulin and insulin receptors in the brain and their role in the pathogenesis of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Insulin, endothelial nitric oxide, and the metabolic syndrome
  • Obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, the metabolic syndrome, and the gut microbiota
  • Is it possible that the metabolic syndrome originates in the perinatal period?
  • Essential fatty acids : biochemistry and physiology
  • Role of EFAs/PUFAs in brain growth and development and pathophysiology of the metabolic syndrome
  • EFAs/PUFAs and their metabolites in insulin resistance
  • EFAs/PUFAs and atherosclerosis.