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Obesity: Evaluation and Treatment Essentials
- Dr G. Michael Steelman (American Soc of Bariatric Physicians, Oklahoma City, OK, USA)
- Dr Eric Westman (Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA)
- ISBN
- 9781420090024, 142009002X
- Size
- 7 x 10
- Pages
- 300
- Pub Date
- November 2009
Obesity: Evaluation and Treatment Essentials presents treatment protocols of obesity, such as exercise, pharmacology, behavior modification, and dietary factors, from the viewpoint of the practicing physician.
This resource is an invaluable 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 presents:
• treatment methods and key points of various clinicians
• 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 digestion and absorption of food
• dietary intervention approaches such as low calorie balanced diets, and low/very low carbohydrate diets
• comorbidities of obesity, such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and Type II diabetes
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