Main description:

Addressing a growing epidemic in today s world, Obesity: Evaluation and Treatment Essentials presents practical treatment protocols for obesity, including exercise, pharmacology, behavior modification, and dietary factors, from the point of view of the practicing physician.

Encompassing a multidisciplinary audience of clinicians and researchers, this comprehensive resource is an invaluable, user-friendly 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:

• Showcases successful treatment methods by including key points of various clinicians in each chapter
• Includes an up-to-date chapter on 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 the digestion and absorption of food
• Addresses various dietary intervention approaches such as low calorie balanced diets, low carbohydrate diets, and very low carbohydrate diets
• Explores the comorbidities of obesity, such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and Type II diabetes

Contents:

1. Obesity: The Scope of a Growing Problem. 2. Etiologies of Obesity. 3. Pathophysiology of Obesity. 4. Basic Nutrition for the Bariatric Physician. 5. Evaluation of the Obese Patient. 6. Dietary Treatment of the Obese Individual. 7. The Role of Exercise. 8. Cognitive-Behavioral Restructuring. 9. Pharmacotherapy. 10. Childhood Obesity. 11. Bariatric Surgery. 12. Maintenance of Weight Loss. 13. Legal Issues in Bariatric Medicine. 14. Current Research/Future Hope. 15. Resources for the Treating Physician.