Obesity Prevention and Treatment: A Practical Guide

by James M. Rippe (Editor), John P. Foreyt (Editor)

Overview

The World Health Organization estimates that there are 2.1 billion individuals with obesity globally. Nearly three quarters of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. The average individual with obesity cuts ten years off their life expectancy, yet less than 40% of physicians routinely counsel individuals concerning the adverse health consequences of obesity. Obesity Prevention and Treatment: A Practical Guide equips healthcare practitioners to include effective weight management counselling in the daily practice of medicine.

Written by lifestyle medicine pioneer and cardiologist, Dr. James Rippe and obesity expert Dr. John Foreyt, this book provides evidence-based discussions of obesity and its metabolic consequences. A volume in the Lifestyle Medicine Series, it provides evidence-based information about the prevention and treatment of obesity through lifestyle measures, such as regular physical activity and sound nutrition, as well as the use of new medications or bariatric surgery available to assist in weight management.

• Provides a framework and practical strategies to assist practitioners in safe and effective treatments of obesity.
• Contains information explaining the relationship between obesity and increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoarthritis, and other chronic conditions.
• Chapters begin with bulleted key points and conclude with a list of Clinical Applications.

Written for practitioners at all levels, this user-friendly, evidence-based book on obesity prevention and treatment will be valuable to practitioners in general medicine or subspecialty practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367551780
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/24/2021
Series:	Lifestyle Medicine
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

James M. Rippe, M.D. is a cardiologist, graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and is the Founder and Director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute and Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

John Foreyt, PHD is Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine's Department of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry and is the Director of the DeBakey Heart Center's Behavioral Medicine Research Center.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Modern Management of Obesity 1. Preventing and Managing Obesity: The Scope of the Problem 2. Pathophysiology of Obesity 3. Epidemiology of Adult Obesity 4. Identification, Evaluation and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity 5. Exercise Management for the Patient with Obesity 6. Behavioral Management for the Patient with Obesity 7. Dietary Management of Overweight and Obesity 8. A Clinical Approach to Pharmacological Management of the Patient with Obesity 9. Bariatric Surgery 10. Pediatric Obesity 11. Adiposity-Based Chronic Disease: A New Diagnostic Term Part 2: Obesity and Specific Medical Conditions 12. Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease 13. Obesity and Diabetes 14. Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome 15. Lifestyle Approaches Targeting Obesity to Lower Cancer Risk, Progression and Recurrence 16. Obesity and Arthritis Part 3: Emerging Topics in Obesity Management 17. Beyond Subcutaneous Fat 18. Public Health and Obesity 19. Future Directions in Obesity and Weight Management

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Bettina Tahsin, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES (Cook County Health)
Description: This book is one of a lifestyle series that attempts to battle the obesity epidemic by presenting some general, clinically relevant information about the various components of this complex problem. Each chapter starts with an outline and ends with a bulleted list of key clinical applications.
Purpose: The book's purpose is to provide a basic overview of the scope of obesity in children and adults, the associated costs (financial and emotional as well as effects on comorbid medical conditions) and what is being done to treat this.
Audience: This book will give health practitioners and dietetic students a brief outline of the intricacies of obesity diagnosis and management. The primary author has a lifestyle institute and is well published in this area of research.
Features: The book includes many short chapters on topics one would expect (behavioral, exercise, dietary, medication). The longest chapter is about bariatric surgery. Because treatment of obesity is so multifactorial, perhaps a more in-depth and frank discussion about the societal challenges that might dismantle treatment plans needs to be part of the solution. Without this part of discussion, prevention is more challenging.
Assessment: For such a complicated, pervasive topic, this book is too cursory to be extremely useful. Readers would need to go elsewhere to learn enough about the practicalities, such as diet patterns or how to encourage weight maintenance, to come up with a possible treatment plan for patients with obesity. Readers could get more useful insight from a good review article like "Management of Obesity," Bray et al. (The Lancet, 2016).

Doody's Review Service

"The more I read through this book, the more I learnt and solidified, consolidated and expanded previous knowledge as well as gaining new knowledge. We all know that obesity is a large public health problem but this excellent and highly readable book puts it all into perspective. Even better, it is easy to read, relatively short in length (making it easier to read as a whole) but fact packed and very good value for money. Highly recommended." --Dr Harry Brown January 2022

"This book will give health practitioners and dietetic students a brief outline of the intricacies of obesity diagnosis and management. The primary author has a lifestyle institute and is well published in this area of research." - Bettina Tahsin, MS, RD, LDN, CDCES (Cook County Health), Doody Enterprises

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