Obesity: treatment & therapy books

This book provides health professionals with sound clinical advice on management of the obese patient admitted into hospital. It addresses all aspects of the patient's care, as well as serving as a resource to facilitate the...

'Why are we losing the war against obesity and chronic disease?' This is the simple question Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson ask, exploring the dominant myth that the exploding epidemic of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes can...

Takes on the 'obesity epidemic,' challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. This title examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent 'obesity' are...

Takes on the 'obesity epidemic,' challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. This title examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent 'obesity' are...

Obesity is a national epidemic in the United States. It is estimated that by 2018 the cost of treating weight-related illnesses will double to almost $350 billion a year, while a 2010 report by the US Surgeon General estimates...

Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine how the language and notions of obesity connect with, or stand apart from, wider societal values and moralities to do with the body, fatness,...

Provides an illustrated, comprehensive review of obesity - a health problem that is rapidly becoming widespread worldwide. Unique guide tackling a complex condition, covering aetiology through to assessment, management and...

XXL challenges governments to abandon top-down planning solutions in favour of bottom-up innovations to confront the obesity crisis.

In the historical record there is abundant evidence that obesity was a medical and health concern as long as medicine has been practiced. The idea of diet and exercise are bulwarks in the fight against obesity in history from the...

Chronicles of a Stomach Stapler details Dr. John Alverdy's career, devoted to replumbing his patients' insides to defeat the natural purpose of their digestive systems. Each case is an adventure, a unique encounter between a...

XXL challenges governments to abandon top-down planning solutions in favour of bottom-up innovations to confront the obesity crisis.

Looks at the prevalence and etiology of childhood obesity. This title discusses comorbidities, such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, NAFLD, sleep, and psychologic complications. It focuses on prevention and therapies, including portion...

Understanding Obesity is a major new textbook, designed to cover all of the essential elements concerning obesity within nutrition, dietetics and health sciences courses.

Preventing Childhood Obesity in Early Care and Education is the new set of national standards describing evidence-based best practices in nutrition, physical activity, and screen time for early care and education programs.

Includes articles such as Special Populations; Obesity Paradox; Airway Management; Trauma in the Morbidly Obese; and, Procedures in the Morbidly Obese Critically Ill.