Adult Obesity

A Paediatric Challenge

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

While it is increasingly clear that adult obesity begins in childhood, preventing this condition is a major challenge for the pediatrician.Adult Obesity: A Paediatric Challenge highlights the causes and consequences of obesity, bringing a modern understanding to the treatment of a heavily stigmatized problem. This collection of essays, based on presentations made at a national symposium on obesity, focuses on managing the condition and its outcomes. World renowned authors offer a wide-ranging perspective of obesity as a global problem and explore its devastating metabolic, social, and political impact.Clarifying a number of important issues, this compilation provides answers to many of the questions surrounding this dangerous condition. It offers sound advice on confronting obesity and conveys the urgency that this problem demands and deserves.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-06-19
Mått:138 x 216 x 9 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:104
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415300155

Utforska kategorier

Medicin: diabetes inom Medicin
Biologi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin

Recensioner i media

"This book is to be thoroughly recommended."- in Clinical Nutrition"The volume achieves its goal quite well. A focus on childhood, when much of obesity originates, is an appropriate target for the United Kingdom as well as for the rest of the world. The list of comorbidities, the complex world that has led to the blossoming of the problem, and the lack of efficacy of most treatments lead to the inexorable conclusion that prevention is the best approach on a population-wide basis. Some countries have accepted this tenant more vigorously than others. This volume, in company with many other works, surely supports such an approach."-American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Innehållsförteckning

THE ISSUE. Obesity: A Global Problem. Over-nutrition or Under-activity? NATURE AND NURTURE. Do Our Genes Make Us Fat?. The Seeds Are Sown in Childhood. OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS. Social Inequalities and Obesity. Self-image and Self-perception. The View from Primary Care. THE CHALLENGE. Adult Obesity: A Pediatric Challenge.