International textbook of obesity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester ; New York :
Wiley,
[2001]
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| Online Access: | Table of Contents |
Table of Contents:
- Obesity as a global problem
- The epidemiology of obesity
- Body weight, body composition and longevity
- Anthropometric indices of obesity and regional distribution of fat depots
- Screening the population
- Evaluation of human adiposity
- Role of neuropeptides and leptin in food intake and obestity
- Regulation of appetite and the management of obesity
- Physiological regulation of macronutrient balance
- Fat in the diet and obesity
- Energy expenditure at rest and during exercise
- Exercise and macronutrient balance
- The specificity of adipose depots
- Causes of obesity and consequences of obesity prevention in non-human primates and other animal models
- Social status, social stress and fat distribution in primates
- Centralization of body fat
- Obesity and hormonal abnormalities
- Cortisol metabolism
- Drug-induced obesity
- Pregnancy
- Social and cultural influences on obesity
- Cessation of smoking and body weight
- Visceral obesity and the metabolic syndrome
- Obesity and type 2 diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Obesity, overweight and human cancer
- Pulmonary diseases (including sleep apnoea and Pickwickian syndrome)
- Obesity and gallstones
- Health benefits and risks of weight loss
- Treatment: diet
- Recent and future drugs for the treatment of obesity
- Treatment: hormones
- Why quality of life measures should be used in the treatment of patients with obesity
- Surgical treatment of obesity
- Swedish obese subjects, SOS.