Adult obesity
Subtitle: a paediatric challenge
By: edited by Terry Wilkin and Linda Voss.
Contributors: Wilkin, Terence J.; Voss, Linda, 1945-
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Obesity -- Congresses.; Obesity -- Etiology -- Congresses.; Obesity -- prevention & control -- Collected Works.; Obesity -- prevention & control -- Congresses.; Health Policy -- Collected Works.; Health Policy -- Congresses.; Obesity -- Child -- Collected Works.; Obesity -- Child -- Congresses.; Obesity -- genetics -- Collected Works.; Obesity -- genetics -- Congresses.; Primary Health Care -- Collected Works.; Primary Health Care -- Congresses.; Self Concept -- Collected Works.; Self Concept -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.; Collected Works.
Description: This collection of essays, based on a national symposium on obesity, is aimed at the generalist with an interest in managing obesity and its outcomes, whether general practitioner, community nurse, dietician or hospital clinician. Its purpose is to highlight the causes and consequences of obesity and to bring modern understanding to the treatment of a problem that is still heavily stigmatized. The authors offer a wide-ranging perspective of obesity as a global problem and explore its devastating metabolic, social and political impact. What is increasingly clear is that the seeds of many of these adult diseases are sown in childhood. The prevention of adult obesity has thus become a major challenge for the pediatrician.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Obesity: a global problem / Philip Ames; title: Over-nutrition or under-activity? / Ken Fox; title: Do our genes make us fat? / Philippe Froguel; title: The seeds are sown in childhood / Terence Wilkin; title: Social inequalities and obesity / Suzi Leather; title: Self-image and self-perception / Andrew Hill; title: The view from primary care / Ian Campbell; title: Adult obesity: a paediatric challenge / David Hall.