Obesity and Weight Management in Primary Care

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1: Introduction and overview.

2: Epidemiology.

3: Causes of obesity.

4: The Autocrine, Paracrine and Endocrine Functions of Adipose.

Tissue.

5: Obesity--a disease in its own right.

6: Beneficial effects of modest weight loss.

7: Management in clinical practice: a patient orientated approach.

8: Drug treatment in the management of obesity.

9: The Place of Surgery in the management of obesity.

10: The economic consequences of obesity.

11: Prevention of obesity.

12: Childhood obesity.

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Appendix 1: Healthy eating.

Appendix 2: Characteristics of successful weight management programmes.

Appendix 3: Facts of fat.

Appendix 4: Growth charts.

Appendix 5: The Milan Declaration.

Index