Handbook of obesity : clinical applications /

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Autres auteurs: Bray, George A., Bouchard, Claude
Format: Livre
Langue:anglais
Publié: New York Informa Healthcare 2008.
Édition:3rd ed.
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Table des matières:
  • Classification and evaluation of the overweight patient
  • Waist girth: a critical evaluation of usefulness
  • Genetic evaluation of obese patients
  • Cultural differences as influences on approaches to obesity treatment
  • Bias, discrimination, and obesity
  • Impact of voluntary weight loss on morbidity and mortality
  • Weight cycling as an instance of false hope
  • Obesity and the primary care physician
  • The prevention of obesity in childhood and adolescence
  • Prevention of obesity
  • Analyzing and influencing obesogenic environments
  • Reengineering the built environment: schools, worksites, neighborhoods, and parks
  • Agriculture and the food industry's role in America's weight pandemic
  • Behavioral approaches to the treatment of obesity
  • Preventing weight regain after weight loss
  • Diet composition and weight loss
  • Exercise and weight management
  • Sibutramine in the management of obesity
  • Drugs that modify fat absorption and alter metabolism
  • Cannabinoid receptor antagonists as potential antiobesity agents
  • Integrated neurohormonal approach to the treatment of obesity: the amylin agonist pramlintide and its interactions with leptin and PYY signaling pathways
  • Neuropeptide Y in the management of obesity
  • Serotonin receptor modulation in the treatment of obesity
  • Melanocortin-4 receptor as a new target for drug development
  • Histamine Hb3s receptor antagonists in the treatment of obesity
  • Drugs with thermogenic properties
  • Strategies to reduce calories in food
  • Herbal and alternative approaches to obesity
  • Is there a future for gene therapy in obesity?
  • Prevention and management of dyslipidemia and the metabolic syndrome in obese patients
  • Surgical treatment and comorbidities
  • Swedish obese subjects: a review of results from a prospective controlled intervention trial
  • Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding
  • Evolving surgical therapy for obesity
  • Liposuction and obesity
  • Obesity and binge eating disorder
  • Special issues in treatment of pediatic obesity
  • Weight loss clinics: range of capabilities, benefits, risks, and costs
  • Economic aspects of obesity
  • Government's evolving role: nutrition, education, regulation, monitoring, and research.