Haslam, David W.
Controversies in Obesity
Part I. Introduction
1. Obesity: Why Bother?
Stephan Rössner
Part II. Sociopolitical
2. Too Late to Challenge the Modern Obesity Epidemic?
Neville J. Rigby
3. Government Action to Tackle Obesity
Susan A. Jebb
4. Why Are Governments Abdicating from Dealing with the Obesity Crisis?
Boyd A. Swinburn
5. Childhood Habits and the Obesity Epidemic
Michael E. J. Lean
6. Obesity and Sexuality
David W. Haslam
7. Fat on Display
David W. Haslam
Part III. Causes
8. The Emerging Paradigm Shift in Understanding the Causes of Obesity
Shamil A. Chandaria
9. Adenoviruses and Obesity
Richard L. Atkinson
10. The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Obesity
Kristine H. Allin, Oluf Pedersen
11. Saturated Fat in Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity: Friend or Foe?
Aseem Malhotra
12. Childhood Obesity and the Environment
Paul A. Whaley
13. Genetics and Epigenetics: Myths or Facts?
Kirsi H. Pietiläinen
14. Chronicities of Modernity and the Contained Body as an Explanation for the Global Pandemic of Obesity, Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome
Dennis Wiedman
Part IV. Clinical
15. Screening for Type 2 Diabetes
Laura J. Gray, Melanie J. Davies, Kamlesh Khunti
16. Assessing the Cardiometabolic Risk of Obesity: Importance of Visceral/Ectopic Fat and of the Use of Hypertriglyceridemic Waist
Jean-Pierre Després
17. Moving Beyond Scales and Tapes: The Edmonton Obesity Staging System
Arya M. Sharma
18. Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Bertrand R. Silva
19. Obesity and the Heart Disease Patient: Controversies Abound
Henry J. Purcell
20. Obesity, Diabetes, and Dental Health: Relationship and Management
Rajesh Chauhan
21. Very Low-Calorie Diets: Saint or Sinner?
Debbie R. J. Cook
22. Obesity and the Mind
David W. Haslam
23. Adipose Tissue Expansion for Improving Glycemic Control
Nikhil V. Dhurandhar
24. Should Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Be Restricted in the Obese?
Tim S. Waters
25. Is It Time to Rename Obesity Management as Secondary Prevention?
Matthew S. Capehorn
Part V. Childhood
26. Childhood Obesity: What Harm, Any Solutions?
Julian Paul Hamilton-Shield
27. Residential Weight Loss Camps for Children and Young People
Paul J. Gately
Part VI. Treatment
28. Sibutramine and Rimonabant: A Postmortem Forensic Examination
Gary Wittert
29. Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding: The Physician’s Choice in Bariatric Surgery
John B. Dixon
30. Challenges Faced by the Bariatric Multidisciplinary Team
Wen Bun Leong, Shahrad Taheri
31. The Controversies Around Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Carel W. Roux
32. Weight Gain on Glucose-Lowering Agents
Abdul Fattah Lakhdar
33. Tipping the Scales of Truth: Why the Energy Balance Equation Is a Dangerous Lie
Damian Edwards
34. OTC Slimming Aids
Terry Maguire
35. Overcoming Sloth
Fred Turok
Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Medicine/Public Health, general, Internal Medicine, Diabetes, Endocrinology
- Author(s)
- Haslam, David W.
- Sharma, Arya M.
- Roux, Carel W. le
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2014
- Page amount
- 14 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781447128342