The obesity reality : a comprehensive approach to a growing problem

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Label

The obesity reality : a comprehensive approach to a growing problem

Title remainder

a comprehensive approach to a growing problem

Statement of responsibility

Naheed Ali

Creator

• Ali, Naheed, 1981-

Subject

• Body weight
• Body weight
• Electronic books
• MEDICAL -- Endocrinology & Metabolism
• MEDICAL -- Nutrition
• Metabolism -- Disorders
• Obesity
• Obesity
• Weight loss
• Weight loss
• Metabolism -- Disorders

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Although every day we read news reports linking health problems to diet and lifestyle, there remains a dearth of books on the topic that consider obesity from a variety of standpoints that include medical, personal, financial, and related considerations. This book discusses these viewpoints to explain how and why the problem exists both in the United States and around the world, and in men, women, children. More than a billion people are overweight and that number is expected to increase substantially over the next decade. How can we live past 90 while being obese? How can we remain healthy until our last breath? During the last decade, doctors have been successfully applying medical principles to the search for an obesity cure. But there is no magic medication, no vaccine that can head off the obesity epidemic as sweeps across the planet. The author discusses the realities of obesity and its repercussions, which include poor health, high medical costs, restrictions on lifestyle and activities, and more. He shows how we can address obesity, starting in childhood, to prevent it from getting worse, both on a personal and on a societal level, and how we can reverse its effects through proper diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices as well as medical procedures and medications

Member of

• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Cataloging source

CDX

Dewey number

616.3/98

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

RC627.8

LC item number

.A45 2012eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WD 210