Full Description
Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians intends to educate physicians and nutritionists about the wide ranges of approaches to weight control from non-traditional sources. The options for weight management in conventional practices are limited to a small number of medications, a confusing array of dietary approaches and surgical procedures with their inherent risks and complications. Unfortunately medical practitioners are not exposed to nutrition and weight control principles during training and thus are reluctant to manage their patients weight control issues. This volume is structured into 4 sections: Introduction to Weight Management Disorders; Morbidity and Mortality of Obesity; Therapy of Obesity; and Integrative Medicine and Obesity. Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians represents a powerful collaboration of dozens of leading experts in the fields of nutrition, weight management and integrative medicine who have managed countless numbers of patients and summarized the research from thousands of articles to create an up-to- date state of the art guide for healthcare practitioners, allied health professionals and public health authorities who manage those who are overweight/obese along with the associated metabolic consequences.
Contents
1. Obesity Definition.- 2. Epidemiology of Obesity.- 3. Pathophysiology of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome: Animal Models.- 4. Pathophysiology of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome: Humans.- 5. The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Visceral Fat Inflammation and Metabolic Disorders.- 6. Assessment of the Obese Patient.- 7. Childhood Obesity: Solutions to a Growing Problem.- 8. Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.- 9. Obesity and Cancer.- 10. Diabesity.- 11. Cardiovascular Complications of Obesity.- 12. Metabolic Support of the Obese Intensive Care Unit Patient.- 13. Obesity and its Impact Upon Quality of Life.- 14. Behavioral and Psychological-Based Therapies.- 15. Physical Activity for Obesity.- 16. Pharmacotherapy for Obesity.- 17. A critical review of FAD diets for weight loss-do they work?- 18. The Mediterranean Diet and the Metabolic Syndrome.- 19. Commercial Programs for Weight Control.- 20. Obesity, Inflammation and the Potential Application of Pharmaconutrition.- 21. Endoscopic Therapies for Weight Control.- 22. Surgical Management of Weight Control.- 23. Complications of Bariatric Surgery.- 24. Weight Management Centers and their Effectiveness for Obesity?- 25. Why Integrative Medicine for Weight Management?- 26. Preventive Medicine and Obesity. Prevention and Strategies for Maintenance.- 27. Dietary Supplements for Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome.- 28. Obesity and the Stress Connection. Mind-Body Therapies for Weight Control.- 29. Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Treatment of the Metabolic Syndrome.- 30. An Integrative Approach to Eating Disorders.- 31. Religious, Cultural and Social Aspects of Eating.- 32. Patient-Centered Strategies for Effective Weight Management.- 33. Conclusions.
