ABSTRACT

This concise handbook concentrates on the management, pharmacological and otherwise, of obesity and its related problems. Diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, hyperlipidemia and fibrinolytic abnormalities are all exacerbated by obesity, which is now epidemic in scale. Professor Peter Kopelman has assembled an international team of ex

chapter |5 pages

Definition of overweight and obesity

chapter |2 pages

References

chapter |2 pages

The Complications of Obesity

chapter 2|16 pages

Obesity and diabetes

chapter |4 pages

Insulin

chapter |9 pages

References

chapter |5 pages

Acknowledgments

chapter |9 pages

Cardiomyopathies

chapter |1 pages

General treatment

chapter |3 pages

Summary

chapter |9 pages

Fibrinogen and obesity

chapter |2 pages

Obesity-hypoventilation syndrome

chapter |7 pages

The obese population

chapter |5 pages

Devices

chapter |4 pages

References

chapter |2 pages

Management Approaches

chapter 7|1 pages

Dietary management of obesity

chapter |1 pages

Is dieting a pointless exercise?

chapter |9 pages

Dietary management

chapter |2 pages

Why more fruits and vegetables?

chapter |1 pages

The five food groups

chapter |4 pages

Meat, fish and alternatives (Table

chapter |2 pages

The Balance of Good Health brain teaser

chapter |7 pages

Commercially-promoted diets

chapter |4 pages

Appendix 1

Food exchange lists

chapter |2 pages

Fats

chapter 8|11 pages

Behavior therapy

chapter |2 pages

Exercise and weight management

chapter |11 pages

Exercise and prevention of weight gain

chapter |7 pages

Promoting activity in youngsters

chapter 10|5 pages

Pharmacological approaches

chapter |9 pages

Fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine

chapter |1 pages

Combination therapy

chapter |3 pages

New centrally-acting drugs

chapter 11|12 pages

Surgery

chapter |2 pages

Conclusions

chapter |1 pages

Clinical examination