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Obesity = evaluation and treatment essentials /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Obesity/ edited by G. Michael Steelman, Eric C. Westman.
Reminder of title:	evaluation and treatment essentials /
other author:	Steelman, G. Michael.
Published:	New York :Informa Healthcare, : 2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 203 p.) :ill. :
Subject:	Obesity. -
Online resource:	http://informahealthcare.com/isbn/9781420090031
ISBN:	9781420090031 (electronic bk.)

Obesity = evaluation and treatment essentials /
Obesityevaluation and treatment essentials /[electronic resource] :edited by G. Michael Steelman, Eric C. Westman. - New York :Informa Healthcare,2010. - 1 online resource (x, 203 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Addressing a growing epidemic in today's world, Obesity: Evaluation and Treatment Essentials presents practical treatment protocols for obesity, including exercise, pharmacology, behavior modification, and dietary factors, from the point of view of the practicing physician. Encompassing a multidisciplinary audience of clinicians and researchers, this comprehensive resource is an invaluable, user-friendly tool for bariatric physicians and surgeons, endocrinologists, diabetologists, nutritionists, dieticians, and all those who treat obesity. Written by prominent members of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, this text: -Showcases successful treatment methods by including key points of various clinicians in each chapter -Includes an up-to-date chapter on the pharmacology of bariatric medicine that identifies the three classes of obesity drugs: those that increase energy expenditure, those that decrease energy intake, and those that inhibit the digestion and absorption of food -Addresses various dietary intervention approaches such as low calorie balanced diets, low carbohydrate diets, and very low carbohydrate diets -Explores the comorbidities of obesity, such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and Type II diabetes"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781420090031 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

582756
Obesity.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RC628 / .O2645 2010eb

Dewey Class. No.: 616.3/98

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2010 J-180

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