Integrating Fundamental Concepts of Obesity and Eating Disorders:

Implications for the Obesity Epidemic.

About the Author (as stated in the publication):

Ann E. Macpherson-Sánchez is with the Department of

Agricultural Education, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.

Correspondence should be sent to Ann E. Macpherson-

Sánchez, 1307 Seagrape Circle, Weston, FL 33326-2726

(e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be

ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the “Reprints”

link.

This article was accepted December 1, 2014.

Acknowledgments

This publication was made possible by a grant from the

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1R01HL091826-01).

I would like to thank the additional multiple principal

investigators of the National Institutes of Health

proposal—Luisa Seijo-Maldonado, MSW, Robinson

Rodríguez-Pérez, PhD, and Gladys Malavé-Martínez,

MS—for their years of collaboration and support. In

addition I would like to thank the interdisciplinary group

of professors who worked with us: Dolores Miranda-

Gierbolini, PhD, Karen Soto, PhD, Gloria Fidalgo, PhD, RD,

Sara Benítez, MA, and Raúl Macchiavelli, PhD. Their

support, doubts, comments, and questions were indispensable

in developing this article. I would also like to give

special thanks to Nancy M. Buss whose editorial insight

was invaluable and to the anonymous peer reviewers

whose comments and constructive criticism gave greater

focus to this final version of the article.

Note. The article’s contents are solely the responsibility

of the author and do not necessarily represent the

official views of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood

Institute or the National Institutes of Health.

The people mentioned in these acknowledgements are all Professors at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, or Rio Piedras Campus with the exception of Nancy Buss who is my sister and lives in Atlanta.