Obesity Management in Family Practice

• Main Author: McKnight, Thomas L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Primary care (Medicine).; Medicine & Public Health.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Primary Care Medicine.

This book empowers the physician to effectively care for a chronic recurrent disease that until now has often gone untreated in the primary care setting. Most obesity treatment texts are written by obesity experts without family practice experience. This disconnect has resulted in books that have li...

Table of Contents:

• Obesity as a Chronic Disease
• The Obesity Bias
• Dietary Tools
• Physical Activity
• Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
• Pharmacotherapy
• Bariatric Surgery
• The First Appointment: Explaining the Process
• The Second Appointment: Dietary Intervention
• The Third Appointment: Behavior Modification and Physical Activity
• Monthly Monitoring and Long-Term Maintenance.