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:

Obesity: the scope of a growing problem
Harold C. Seim
Etiologies of obesity
Larry A. Richardson
Health hazards of obesity
G. Michael Steelman
Evaluation of the obese patient
James T. Cooper
Dietary treatment of the obese individual
Mary C. Vernon, Eric C. Westman, and James A. Wortman
The role of physical activity in the treatment of the obese individual
Deborah Bade Horn
Behavioral modification
Erin Chamberlin-Snyder
Pharmacotherapy 81
Ed J. Hendricks
Maintenance of weight loss
Scott Rigden
Surgical treatment of the obese individual
John B. Cleek
Medical treatment of pediatric obesity
Mary C. Vernon and Eric C. Westman
Residential lifestyle modification programs for the treatment of obesity
Howard J. Eisenson and Eric C. Westman
Current research and future hope
Frank L. Greenway and Steven R. Smith
Legal aspects and issues related to bariatric medical practice
James L. Bland
Appendix A: Notes on nutrition for bariatrician
Jeffrey D. Lawrence
Appendix B: Behavioral modification forms
Erin Chamberlin-Snyder