Childhood Obesity: Prevalence, Pathophysiology, and Management

ISBN-13: 9781926895918 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 386 str.

Rexford S. Ahima

Opis

The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has increased worldwide in recent decades. Obesity in childhood is associated with a wide range of serious health complications and an increased risk of premature illness and death later in life. This book presents childhood obesity trends across multiple demographics and discusses the contributing genetic and environmental factors. It demonstrates the adverse health consequences of childhood obesity both as they relate to childhood and as they last into adulthood and presents multiple methods for obesity treatment included community and family-based intervention, pharmacotherapy, and surgical procedures.

Recenzje

"The book confirmed that prevention programmes work not just by boosting physical activity but by the consequent reduction in children’s exposure to heavy marketing of unhealthy fast-foods and soft drinks …This book would be suitable for academics working in this important field …"
—Rachel Pryke, RCGP, Clinical Lead for Nutrition, Royal College of General Practitioners, London, UK, in British Journal of General Practice

Spis treści

Introduction. Genetic and Environmental Factors. Adverse Health Consequences. Prevention and Treatment. Index.

O autorze

Ahima, Rexford S.|