Obesity Prevention and Treatment (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide
Redaktion: Rippe, James M.; Foreyt, John P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The average individual with obesity cuts ten years off their life expectancy, yet less than 40% of physicians routinely counsel individuals on obesity's adverse health consequences. Obesity Prevention and Treatment: A Practical Guide equips healthcare practitioners to include effective weight management counselling in the daily medical practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000456622
• Artikelnr.: 62587485

Autorenporträt

James M. Rippe, M.D. is a cardiologist, graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and is the Founder and Director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute and Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. John Foreyt, PHD is Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine's Department of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry and is the Director of the DeBakey Heart Center's Behavioral Medicine Research Center.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Modern Management of Obesity 1. Preventing and Managing
Obesity: The Scope of the Problem 2. Pathophysiology of Obesity 3.
Epidemiology of Adult Obesity 4. Identification, Evaluation and Treatment
of Overweight and Obesity 5. Exercise Management for the Patient with
Obesity 6. Behavioral Management for the Patient with Obesity 7. Dietary
Management of Overweight and Obesity 8. A Clinical Approach to
Pharmacological Management of the Patient with Obesity 9. Bariatric Surgery
10. Pediatric Obesity 11. Adiposity-Based Chronic Disease: A New Diagnostic
Term Part 2: Obesity and Specific Medical Conditions 12. Obesity and
Cardiovascular Disease 13. Obesity and Diabetes 14. Obesity and the
Metabolic Syndrome 15. Lifestyle Approaches Targeting Obesity to Lower
Cancer Risk, Progression and Recurrence 16. Obesity and Arthritis Part 3:
Emerging Topics in Obesity Management 17. Beyond Subcutaneous Fat 18.
Public Health and Obesity 19. Future Directions in Obesity and Weight
Management