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Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care.
Obesity is undoubtedly the major nutritional disorder of the western world. It has such a major impact on mortality, morbidity and the quality of life that it most certainly merits consideration as a disease in its own right and should be managed as such. Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Car...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Obesity and weight management in primary care; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction and overview; 2 Epidemiology; 3 Causes of obesity; 4 The autocrine, paracrine and endocrine functions of adipose tissue; 5 Obesity-a disease in its own right!; 6 Beneficial effects of modest weight loss; 7 Management in clinical practice: a patient orientated approach; 8 Drug treatment in the management of obesity; 9 The place of surgery in the management of obesity; 10 The economic consequences of obesity; 11 Prevention of obesity; 12 Childhood obesity; Appendix 1: Healthy eating.
- Appendix 2: Characteristics of successful weight management programmesAppendix 3: Facts on fat; Appendix 4: BMI charts; Appendix 5: The Milan Declaration; Index.