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This book is a current, comprehensive medical text focused on obesity and its related syndromes and diseases. It presents the latest science and research in an accessible manner for medical practitioners, emphasizing best practices in healthcare for obese patients. The text clarifies obesity as an epidemic disease, dispels common myths, and challenges traditional medical views. It offers detailed, science-based information on the epidemiology, biology, genetics, psychology, discrimination, causes, and effects of obesity, alongside insights into related syndromes and diseases. Additionally, it provides specific best practices, including preferred measurement methods, screening techniques, a system of graded interventions, and a thorough analysis of bariatric/surgical options, as well as a proposed population management strategy. This resource serves as an invaluable reference for frontline practitioners and is essential for educating students in medical, nursing, physician assistant, osteopathy programs, medical weight loss clinics, and other health science disciplines, both domestically and internationally.
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Obesity, Robin P. Blackstone
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- 2016
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