Third Edition
edited by Peter G. Kopelman
Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children combines the latest in clinical research with a practical approach to guide the successful evaluation, management and treatment of the obese patient including the large number of complications and other conditions that can arise as a consequence of it.
Written by experts from around the globe, this text is a truly international work recognizing that the approach for the treatment and management of obesity may vary between differing ethnicities and in different countries.
Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children addresses obesity and its social and cultural aspects, biology, associated diseases, life stages (pediatric and adult), management, and environmental policy approaches in six sections.
As well as covering the latest approaches to treatment of obesity, it considers the effects of the environment, of gender and of culture on this problem.
Contents
Obesity
- Epidemiology: Definition and Classification of Obesity
- Measuring Body Composition in Adults and Children
- Stigma and Social Consequences of Obesity
- Obesity and Culture,
- Obesity and Gender
Biology of Obesity
- Energy Balance and Body Weight Homeostasis
- Genes and Obesity
- Fetal and Infant Origins of Obesity
- Adipocyte Biology
- Metabolic Fuels and Obesity
- Eating Behavior
- Energy Expenditure in Humans: The Influence of Activity, Diet and the Sympathetic Nervous System
Obesity and Disease
- Obesity and Dyslipidemia: Importance of Body Fat Distribution
- Obesity Insulin Resistance and Gut Hormones
- Obesity as an Endocrine Disease
- Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
- Cardiovascular Consequences of Obesity
- Adult Obesity: Fertility
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Management of Adult Obesity
- An Overview of Obesity Management
- Dietary Management of Obesity: Eating Plans
- Behavioural Treatment of Obesity
- Exercise, Physical Activity and Obesity
- Drugs Used Clinically to Reduce Body Weight
- The Management of Obesity: Surgery
- Weight Loss Maintenance and Weight Cycling
- Education and Training of Healthcare Professionals
Childhood Obesity
- Childhood Obesity: Definition, Classification and Assessment, 375
- Childhood Obesity: Consequences and Complications
- The Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
Environmental Policy Approaches
- Obesity: Global Pandemic
- Obesity and the Environment
- Obesity: Using the Ecologic Public Health Approach to Overcome Policy Cacophony
- A Comprehensive Approach to Obesity Prevention
Index
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