Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children

Peter G. Kopelman, MD, DSC, FRCP, FFPH, is the late Professor of Medicine at the University of London, London, UK.

Ian D. Caterson, AM, MBBS, BSC(MED), PhD, FRACP, is Boden Professor of Human Nutrition, School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

William H. Dietz, MD, PhD, is Chair of the Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA.

Sarah Armstrong, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.

Arianne N. Sweeting, MBBS, BSC, GradDip HL, PhD, FRACP, is a Staff Specialist Endocrinologist, Department of Endocrinology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and Boden Initiative, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

John P.H. Wilding, DM, FRCP, is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine at the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences at the University of Liverpool and Honorary Consultant Physician at Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool, UK.

Contributors

Preface

Abbreviations

Part 1: Obesity

1 Obesity - Introduction: History and the scale of the problem worldwide
W. Philip T James and Tim Gill

2 The Epidemiology and Social Determinants of Obesity
Lindsay M. Jaacks and Mariachiara Di Cesare

Part 2: Causes of Obesity

3. Fetal and infant origins of obesity
Emily Oken and Susan E. Ozanne

4 Genes and Obesity
I. Sadaf Farooqi

5 Bias, Stigma, and Social Consequences of Obesity
Rebecca L. Pearl and Christina M. Hopkins

6 Ecology, protein leverage and public health
David Raubenheimer and Stephen J. Simpson

7 The Living Environment and Physical Activity
Jean-Michel Oppert and Helene Charreire

8 Psychobiology of obesity: Eating behaviour and appetite control
Michelle Dalton, Nicola Buckland, John Blundell

9 Energy balance and body weight homeostasis
Yann Ravussin and Abdul G Dulloo

Part 3: Obesity as a Disease

10 Obesity, ectopic fat and type 2 diabetes
Ann Verhaegen and Luc F. Van Gaal

11 Obesity and dyslipidemia, importance of body fat distribution
Fredrik Karpe

12 Obesity and Fertility
Arianne N Sweeting

13 Metabolic Syndrome and Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease
Bo Kyoung Koo and Soo Lim

14 Cardiovascular Consequences
Naveed Sattar

15 Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
Henry W Ainge-Allen, Brendon J Yee, Ronald R Grunstein

16 Obesity and Cancer
Michael R. Skilton

Part 4: Management of Adult Obesity

17 A practical approach to contemporary obesity management
Ian D Caterson, Arianne N Sweeting and Peter G Kopelman

18 Dietary Management of Obesity: Eating Plans
Janet Franklin and Kyra Sim

19 The Behavioral Treatment of Obesity
Ariana M. Chao, Kerry M. Quigley and Thomas A. Wadden

20 Role of Exercise and Physical Activity in promoting weight loss and weight loss maintenance
Daniel J Cuthbertson, Laurence J Dobbie

21 Adjunctive therapy, including pharmacotherapy
Dalal Al-Bazz and John PH Wilding

22 The Management of Obesity: Surgery
Wendy A. Brown and David Martin

23 Weight loss maintenance and weight cycling
Catherine Hankey

24 Training and Medical Systems for Obesity Care
William H Dietz

Part 5: Childhood Obesity

25 The Prevention of Childhood Obesity
William H. Dietz and Louise A. Baur

26 Consequences of childhood and adolescent obesity: the need for a broad approach.
Yvonne Anderson and Chu Shan Elaine Chew

27 The Treatment of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
Sarah Armstrong and Nathalie Farpour-Lambert

Part 6: Policy Approaches

28 Policy approaches to obesity prevention
Tim Lobstein

29 The double burden of malnutrition
Li Kheng Chai, Jenna Hollis, Clare Collins, Alessandro Demaio

30 Taxes, subsidies, and policies
Simon Barquera, Lesly Vejar, Mariel White, Mishel Unar

31 The Global Syndemic of obesity, undernutrition and climate change
Boyd Swinburn, Peter Hovmand, Wilma Waterlander, Steve Allender

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