Author: George A. Bray
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439814589
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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 time of Hippocrates to the 16th century-a span of 2,000 years. Examining the history and etiology of the obesity epidemic, this book discusses various requirements of effective intervention and treatment strategies. The first section covers the history of obesity, defines and evaluates the clinical presentation of the pathology, discusses its prevalence in the population, and explains common analytical measurements. Chapters include genetics and genetic factors, modern consequences of obesity, and quality of life issues. The second section introduces prevention strategies in children and adults, such as dietary and lifestyle changes, medication, and surgical interventions.
A Guide to Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome
Author: George A. Bray
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439814589
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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 time of Hippocrates to the 16th century-a span of 2,000 years. Examining the history and etiology of the obesity epidemic, this book discusses various requirements of effective intervention and treatment strategies. The first section covers the history of obesity, defines and evaluates the clinical presentation of the pathology, discusses its prevalence in the population, and explains common analytical measurements. Chapters include genetics and genetic factors, modern consequences of obesity, and quality of life issues. The second section introduces prevention strategies in children and adults, such as dietary and lifestyle changes, medication, and surgical interventions.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439814589
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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 time of Hippocrates to the 16th century-a span of 2,000 years. Examining the history and etiology of the obesity epidemic, this book discusses various requirements of effective intervention and treatment strategies. The first section covers the history of obesity, defines and evaluates the clinical presentation of the pathology, discusses its prevalence in the population, and explains common analytical measurements. Chapters include genetics and genetic factors, modern consequences of obesity, and quality of life issues. The second section introduces prevention strategies in children and adults, such as dietary and lifestyle changes, medication, and surgical interventions.
Nutrition and Diseases--1973 [-1974]: Obesity and fad diets
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nutrition
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nutrition
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
In the vine country
Author: Martin Ross
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
In the Vine Country is an account of a tour through Medoc county at the end of the 19th century by Anglo-Irish cousins and traveling companions Edith Somerville and Martin Ross. The two writers co-authored numerous novels throughout their writing careers. Yet, in this book, they share their travel's real-life experiences. The text is full of humor, amusing encounters, and descriptions of the beautiful nature of the winemaking region of France.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
In the Vine Country is an account of a tour through Medoc county at the end of the 19th century by Anglo-Irish cousins and traveling companions Edith Somerville and Martin Ross. The two writers co-authored numerous novels throughout their writing careers. Yet, in this book, they share their travel's real-life experiences. The text is full of humor, amusing encounters, and descriptions of the beautiful nature of the winemaking region of France.
Managing and Preventing Obesity
Author: Timothy Gill
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1782420991
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Obesity is an increasing problem on a global scale, and strategies for its prevention involve experts from many disciplines including nutritionists, physicians, policy-makers and public health professionals. This book covers the latest advances in obesity development, management and prevention with specific focus on dietary interventions. Part one covers the development of obesity and key drivers for its continuation and increase. Part two looks at the role of specific dietary components in obesity management, and part three discusses the role of behavioural factors such as eating patterns in managing and preventing obesity. Part four focuses on structured dietary interventions for obesity treatment, and part five looks at public interventions and consumer issues. - Reviews how different foods and diets can affect obesity management - Examines various ways of preventing and treating obesity - Explores how governments and industries are preventing and treating obesity
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1782420991
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Obesity is an increasing problem on a global scale, and strategies for its prevention involve experts from many disciplines including nutritionists, physicians, policy-makers and public health professionals. This book covers the latest advances in obesity development, management and prevention with specific focus on dietary interventions. Part one covers the development of obesity and key drivers for its continuation and increase. Part two looks at the role of specific dietary components in obesity management, and part three discusses the role of behavioural factors such as eating patterns in managing and preventing obesity. Part four focuses on structured dietary interventions for obesity treatment, and part five looks at public interventions and consumer issues. - Reviews how different foods and diets can affect obesity management - Examines various ways of preventing and treating obesity - Explores how governments and industries are preventing and treating obesity
Pediatric Overweight and Obesity
Author: Manuel Moya
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031267273
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book focuses on the worldwide frequent and growing problem with its projective trajectory that encompasses pediatric overweight and obesity. Through the ten chapters it offers in the first four a comprehensive state of art of the bases of pediatric obesity in order to support the following ones with new and proved clinical issues, as recent complementary features on anthropometry and food intake and new safe treatments. This books discusses comorbidities, trajectories, prevention, extended periods and treatment. For effective prevention, clues are given to routinely screen all comorbidities that are already present in overweight or obese children but frequently overlooked. This volume will be of benefit to pediatricians, endocrinologists and all healthcare providers interested in the care of children and adolescents.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031267273
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book focuses on the worldwide frequent and growing problem with its projective trajectory that encompasses pediatric overweight and obesity. Through the ten chapters it offers in the first four a comprehensive state of art of the bases of pediatric obesity in order to support the following ones with new and proved clinical issues, as recent complementary features on anthropometry and food intake and new safe treatments. This books discusses comorbidities, trajectories, prevention, extended periods and treatment. For effective prevention, clues are given to routinely screen all comorbidities that are already present in overweight or obese children but frequently overlooked. This volume will be of benefit to pediatricians, endocrinologists and all healthcare providers interested in the care of children and adolescents.
Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence
Author: H. Dele Davies MD
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440858543
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This updated edition of the groundbreaking first edition identifies changes in U.S. children and adolescents' obesity levels within the past decade, examining factors contributing to obesity in this younger generation as well as possible solutions. This comprehensive review of obesity in childhood and adolescence describes the many factors that contribute to obesity, how to prevent it, and how to manage it in those who already experience its effects. Written by specialists in biological, psychological, social, and behavioral fields, these volumes take an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, offering readers a broad understanding of the systemic complexity of obesity from a public health perspective. The public must be aware of the deep and extensive roots of the problem in order to make informed decisions about policies related to school and nutritional practices, health care costs, and more. Factors contributing to obesity in children and adolescents range from obvious ones such as quantity of food consumed and amount of physical exercise undertaken to how friendly the neighborhood environment is for outdoor activities and the affordability of nutritional foods such as fruits and vegetables. With the information in these volumes, readers will feel empowered to help their clients, families, and communities.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1440858543
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This updated edition of the groundbreaking first edition identifies changes in U.S. children and adolescents' obesity levels within the past decade, examining factors contributing to obesity in this younger generation as well as possible solutions. This comprehensive review of obesity in childhood and adolescence describes the many factors that contribute to obesity, how to prevent it, and how to manage it in those who already experience its effects. Written by specialists in biological, psychological, social, and behavioral fields, these volumes take an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, offering readers a broad understanding of the systemic complexity of obesity from a public health perspective. The public must be aware of the deep and extensive roots of the problem in order to make informed decisions about policies related to school and nutritional practices, health care costs, and more. Factors contributing to obesity in children and adolescents range from obvious ones such as quantity of food consumed and amount of physical exercise undertaken to how friendly the neighborhood environment is for outdoor activities and the affordability of nutritional foods such as fruits and vegetables. With the information in these volumes, readers will feel empowered to help their clients, families, and communities.
Captain America Epic Collection
Author: Mark Gruenwald
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302524186
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Captain America fights for his life! Cap is on the hunt for the Skull - the Blazing Skull, that is! Then, Doctor Faustus' mental machinations pit Steve Rogers against his old pal Nomad! But when the Sentinel of Liberty learns that his enhanced physique is shutting down on him, his choice is simple: retire from being a hero…or die in action! But with evil masterminds plotting and dead villains rising, that's no choice at all for Captain America! Can Cap's friends dissuade him from setting the world's safety above his own? Plus: Wartime adventures with the Invaders, Bucky and the Howling Commandos! And Cap unites with Nick Fury to expose a rogue faction of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #420-430 and ANNUAL #13, NOMAD (1992) #18-19, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE MEDUSA EFFECT, and CAPTAIN AMERICA/NICK FURY: BLOOD TRUCE.
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302524186
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Captain America fights for his life! Cap is on the hunt for the Skull - the Blazing Skull, that is! Then, Doctor Faustus' mental machinations pit Steve Rogers against his old pal Nomad! But when the Sentinel of Liberty learns that his enhanced physique is shutting down on him, his choice is simple: retire from being a hero…or die in action! But with evil masterminds plotting and dead villains rising, that's no choice at all for Captain America! Can Cap's friends dissuade him from setting the world's safety above his own? Plus: Wartime adventures with the Invaders, Bucky and the Howling Commandos! And Cap unites with Nick Fury to expose a rogue faction of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #420-430 and ANNUAL #13, NOMAD (1992) #18-19, CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE MEDUSA EFFECT, and CAPTAIN AMERICA/NICK FURY: BLOOD TRUCE.
American Revisions and Additions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Big Fat Lies
Author: Glenn Alan Gaesser
Publisher: Gurze Books
ISBN: 0936077425
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Offers a plan for metabolic fitness while debunking height-weight tables, fat consumption, yo-yo dieting, exercise, and the relationship between health and obesity.
Publisher: Gurze Books
ISBN: 0936077425
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Offers a plan for metabolic fitness while debunking height-weight tables, fat consumption, yo-yo dieting, exercise, and the relationship between health and obesity.
Fat America
Author: Alan M. Tooshi
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595478115
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Fat America offers valuable insight collected from Dr. Alan Tooshi's years of extensive experience teaching Americans how to control their eating habits. You will learn techniques for weight management, make better dietary choices, and implement an exercise program that effectively manages stress and promotes long-term health. For over thirty years, Dr. Alan Tooshi has specialized in prescribing individual low-fat, high-fiber diets for patients with heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and other health issues. Today, sixty-five percent of adults and forty percent of children in the United States are overweight. Dr. Tooshi provides the solutions and recipes for a complete lifestyle change that encourages everyone to reexamine their relationship with food and change their beliefs about stress, nutrition, disease, and aging. You will learn specifically how to: Break the pattern of overeating Accept responsibility for your health Slow down the aging process Boost your self-confidence Lower your caloric intake Eliminate acid reflux and other digestive ailments Decrease vulnerability to infection and cancer The power, desire, and ability to make the right choice are within you. It's time to take back the control and lead a longer, happier life!
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595478115
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Fat America offers valuable insight collected from Dr. Alan Tooshi's years of extensive experience teaching Americans how to control their eating habits. You will learn techniques for weight management, make better dietary choices, and implement an exercise program that effectively manages stress and promotes long-term health. For over thirty years, Dr. Alan Tooshi has specialized in prescribing individual low-fat, high-fiber diets for patients with heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and other health issues. Today, sixty-five percent of adults and forty percent of children in the United States are overweight. Dr. Tooshi provides the solutions and recipes for a complete lifestyle change that encourages everyone to reexamine their relationship with food and change their beliefs about stress, nutrition, disease, and aging. You will learn specifically how to: Break the pattern of overeating Accept responsibility for your health Slow down the aging process Boost your self-confidence Lower your caloric intake Eliminate acid reflux and other digestive ailments Decrease vulnerability to infection and cancer The power, desire, and ability to make the right choice are within you. It's time to take back the control and lead a longer, happier life!