A Clinical Guide for Management of Overweight and Obese Children and Adults

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Nutrition While unhealthy diet and sedentary behaviors are second only to smoking as the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S., less than 45 percent of aduit and pediatric obese patients reeeived any prior advice from a physician to lose weight. The low rate of identification and treatment of obesity by physicians can often be attributed to lack of awareness, lack of counseling skills, and the high rate of recidivism in overweight patients. A Clinical Guide for Management of Overweight and Obese Children and Adults addresses deficiencies in the identification, treatment, and management of obesity through a collection of monographs edited by aduit and pediatric specialists. Designed for the busy health care provider, this reference provides practical distinctions and a clinical guide for aduit and childhood obesity in a single volume. This clinical guide outlines the management of the obese patient from the preparation of office accommodations through the long road of... Tovább

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Nutrition While unhealthy diet and sedentary behaviors are second only to smoking as the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S., less than 45 percent of aduit and pediatric obese patients reeeived any prior advice from a physician to lose weight. The low rate of identification and treatment of obesity by physicians can often be attributed to lack of awareness, lack of counseling skills, and the high rate of recidivism in overweight patients. A Clinical Guide for Management of Overweight and Obese Children and Adults addresses deficiencies in the identification, treatment, and management of obesity through a collection of monographs edited by aduit and pediatric specialists. Designed for the busy health care provider, this reference provides practical distinctions and a clinical guide for aduit and childhood obesity in a single volume. This clinical guide outlines the management of the obese patient from the preparation of office accommodations through the long road of maintained wellness. FEATURES • Provides a practical approach to evaluation and treatment strategies from the simply overweight to complex obesity with multiple comorbidities • Distinguishes between strategies for pediatric and aduit obesity • Considers the long term treatment protocol from the initial visit to weight and health maintenance • Addresses a wide rangé of modalities and adjunctive treatments including, diet, exercise, psychology, surgery, and pharmacotherapy • Gives practitioners the awareness, support services, and counseling skills to engender lifelong change in their patients Taking into consideration the holistic methods incorporated in the new discipline of obesity medicine, A Clinical Guide for Management of Overweight and Obese Children and Adults reviews the state-of-the-art management of this burgeoning disease epidemic. Vissza