Guide to obesity and the metabolic syndrome
Subtitle: origins and treatment
By: by George A. Bray
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781439814574
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins of obesity in the scientific era : 1500 AD to the present; title: Definitions, measurement, and prevalence; title: Genetic, metabolic, and social origins of obesity; title: Effects of obesity on health and metabolism; title: Prevention, evaluation, and introduction to treatment; title: Lifestyle, diet, & exercise : cognitive solutions; title: Medications for obesity; title: Surgery for obesity; title: Post-script : obesity in the twenty first century.