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This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2005. The length of the article is 958 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Payment system thwarts efforts to treat obesity.(Practice Trends)
Author: Mary Ellen Schneider
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38Issue: 23Page: 68(2)

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This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 465 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Obesity may hamper trauma recovery.(Adolescent Medicine)
Author: Jane Salodof MacNeil
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38Issue: 21Page: 43(1)

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This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by International Medical News Group on November 15, 2004. The length of the article is 598 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Federal agencies tackle challenge of obesity.(Practice Trends)
Author: Joyce Frieden
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 15, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 37Issue: 22Page: 73(1)

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2007. The length of the article is 677 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: HIV-positive patients struggle with overweight.(Obesity)
Author: Doug Brunk
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37Issue: 21Page: 34(1)

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This digital document is an article from Pediatric News, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1858 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Alarm sounded on rising obesity rate in infants, toddlers: 'Baby fat' is not likely to be outgrown.(News)
Author: Diana Mahoney
Publication: Pediatric News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40Issue: 10Page: 1(2)

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1254 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Secondary analyses in obesity, diabetes, digestive and kidney diseases.(Announcements / Fellowships, Grants, & Awards)
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Volume: 113Issue: 7Page: A477(1)

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This digital document is an article from Food & Drink Weekly, published by Informa Economics, Inc. on October 11, 2004. The length of the article is 517 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Food sector lauds child obesity recommendations from IOM.
Publication: Food & Drink Weekly (Newsletter)
Date: October 11, 2004
Publisher: Informa Economics, Inc.
Volume: 10Issue: 38Page: 1

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This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by International Medical News Group on February 15, 2005. The length of the article is 593 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Waist size may predict knee osteoarthritis in men: circumference remained an independent risk factor after adjustment for BMI in men, but not in women.(Rheumatology)
Author: Patrice Wendling
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 15, 2005
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 38Issue: 4Page: 12(1)

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Highly Commended in the 2006 British Medical Association Book Awards (Endocrinology)

This Second Edition brings together more than 20 internationally recognized experts in the field to provide a timely review of current knowledge. The text remains an invaluable resource for all healthcare professionals involved in the care of patients who are obese.

New features of this Second Edition include:

• Addition of two new co-editors – Professor Bill Dietz, USA and Professor Ian Caterson, Australia
  
• Increased number of contributors from around the globe – providing a truly international perspective
  
• Includes new information about the causes of obesity, its complications and new (and novel) methods of prevention and treatment
  
• Reorganized into sections that address obesity and its social and cultural aspects, biology, associated diseases, life stages (pediatric and adult), management, and environmental and policy approaches

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Many patients who are seen by gastroenterologists are overweight or obese. Moreover, gastroenterologists often are consulted to help manage obesity-related gastrointestinal diseases or gastrointestinal complications of weight loss therapy. Therefore, it is important for gastroenterologists to understand the key clinical issues associated with obesity that are discussed in this issue.  In addition, gastroenterologists can provide a valuable clinical service by becoming actively involved in helping their obese patients lose weight. ... Read more

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Comprehensive & Potentially Life-Saving
Covers many types of eating disorders including overeating obesity. Obesity is an imbalance between food intake and expenditure of energy. The cause of this imbalance is unknown, but it is life threatening and needs to be corrected as soon as possible or it will shorten lifespen and diminish quality of life dramatically.

A comprehensive reference book on an important topic
Obesity is an increasingly major problem in our societytoday and people spend millions trying to lose weight,often only to put it back on again. The Encyclopedia of Obesity and Eating Disorders puts it all in perspective for us in this A-Z reference, explaining the features and causes of anorexia nervosa, cultural influences on appearance and fad diets as well as topics such as homosexuality and eating disorders, the mass media influence on eating disorder, sleep-related eating disorder and much more.

This book should be in every public and academic library. As a researcher/writer myself, I found it invaluable. ... Read more

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This unique book is the first to focus on the cardiovascular effects of obesity. The authors present and integrate relevant literature from such disparate areas as endocrinology/metabolism, surgery, biochemistry, and physiology.

Among the topics covered are:

• The effects of obesity on myocardial metabolism, morphology and function
  
• An in-depth analysis of the evolution of obesity cardiomyopathy
  
• Obesity's interrelationship with sleep disordered breathing
  
• The effects of weight loss on obesity-related cardiopulmonary abnormalities
  
• Obesity and coronary artery disease

This last topic has seldom if ever been so comprehensively reviewed. Indeed, the entire text provides the most in-deth critical analysis yet of how obesity affects the heart and lung and is hence recommended for anyone working in the field of obesity or providing medical care to obese patients. ... Read more

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Obesity has affected people throughout human history, but never before has it been such a widespread condition.Causes, treatments, living with obesity, and research are explored. ... Read more

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The Encyclopedia of Obesity is as much of a reference resource as it is a tool to raise awareness in the medical and public health communities. With almost 500 entries, these two volume summarize pertinent topics in obesity and related health conditions, including molecular biology, psychology, medicine, public health and policy, food science, environmental health, and pharmaceuticals. The editor has chosen topics that capture the current climate of obesity research while still addressing and defining the core concepts related to this condition. Based on a theme of Moving Forward in an Ever Expanding World articles address topics for a changing society that is slowly adapting to accommodate obesity, including recent lawsuits, new options for medical and dietary treatment, and the importance of prevention in children.

Key Themes

· Biological or Genetic Contributors to Obesity
· Children and Obesity
· Dietary Interventions to Treat Obesity
· Disordered Eating and Obesity
· Environmental Contributors to Obesity
· Health Implications of Obesity
· Medical Treatments for Obesity
· New Research Frontiers on Obesity
· Obesity and Behavior
· Obesity and Ethnicity/Race
· Obesity as a Public Health Crisis
· Psychological Influences/Outcomes on Obesity
· Societal Influences/Outcomes on Obesity
· Women and Obesity
· Worldwide Prevalence of Obesity

The Encyclopedia of Obesity is intended to serve as a general and nontechnical resource for biology, sociology, health studies, and other social science students, teachers, scholars, researchers, and anyone in the general public who wishes to understand the development of obesity as it prevails in the United States and worldwide.

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Within the past two generations alone, child and adolescent obesity has more than doubled for some age groups and tripled for others. Consequently, the extraordinary number of school-age children now being diagnosed with what were once considered adult-onset disordershypertension, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and related cardio-pulmonary conditionshas catapulted pediatric obesity to the forefront of national attention. Yet even as recognition grows, reliable, scientifically tested information and methods often get lost in the media crush of quick fixes and hyped-up news stories.

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This digital document is an article from On The Plate, published by Consumer Alert on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 329 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: No quick fix for childhood obesity.
Publication: On The Plate (Newsletter)
Date: October 1, 2004
Publisher: Consumer Alert
Page: NA

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by Thomson Gale on May 15, 2007. The length of the article is 552 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fitness doesn't trump fatness, but it helps trim comorbidity-related risks.(Obesity)
Author: Sherry Boschert
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 15, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 37Issue: 10Page: 40(1)

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