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Synopsis
Helping your patients maintain healthy weight is a key to promoting their well-being and longevity. Now, in this guide for the health professional, you can get an up-to-date analysis of the causes and prevention of obesity to help you design effective, appropriate weight management plans. Overweight and Weight Management explains how to use basic counseling skills and advanced behavior modification techniques to help patients change lifelong habits and develop healthy lifestyles. And you'll get assessment tools to help you improve your working relationship with overweight clients, along with diaries, goal attainment scales, and other essential tools to keep your patients on track.
Table of Contents
ch. 1.Body weight terminology, definitions, and measurement /Sharron Dalton --ch. 2.Body composition and resting metabolic rate /Richard N. Pierson, Jr., Jack Wang, and Carol N. Boozer --ch. 3.Cultural appropriateness of weight management programs /Shiriki K. Kumanyika and Christiaan B. Morssink --ch. 4.Obesity-related eating patterns /Nancy J. Aronoff --ch. 5.Trends in prevalence of overweight in the United States and other countries /Sharron Dalton --ch. 6.Genetic factors and body weight regulation /Claude Bouchard --ch. 7.Mechanisms of appetite and body weight regulation /Joseph R. Vasselli and Carol A. Maggio --ch. 8.Energy metabolism and thermogenesis in human obesity /Harvey L. Katzeff --ch. 9.Body fat content and the balance between fat and the alcohol oxidation and consumption /Jean-Pierre Flatt --ch. 10.Diet composition and the regulation of food intake and body weight /Victoria Hammer Castellanos and Barbara J. Rolls --ch. 11.Reproduction and body weight /Barbara J. Moore and Ruth Kava --ch. 12. Social aspects of obesity /Jeffery Sobal and Carol Devine --ch. 13.Weight management : framework for changing behavior /Janet K. Grommet --ch. 14.Practitioner counseling skills in weight management /Idamarie Laquatra and Steven J. Danish --ch. 15.Mulit-disciplinary weight management /Cathy Nonas --ch. 16. Therole of diet and exercise in weight management /Wayne C. Miller and Alice K. Lindeman --ch. 17.Emotional eating and obesity /Myles S. Faith, David B. Allison, Allen Geliebter --ch. 18. Therole of parmacological agents in the treatment of obesity /L. Arthur Campfield --ch. 19.Anthropometric techniques for identification of obese children /Cara B. Ebbeling and Nancy R. Rodriguez --ch. 20.Childhood and adolescent weight management /Debra K. Brown --ch. 21.Regulating the weight management industry /Lori J. Silverstein and Sachiko T. St.Jeor --ch. 22.Design and analysis of obesity treatment and prevention trials /David B. Allison.