Prevention, Management, And Treatment Strategies For The Treatment Of Obesity - New Informa Healthcare Book

Main Category: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness
Article Date: 24 Jun 2008 - 4:00 PDT

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Informa Healthcare, one of the world's premier medical scientific publishers, is introducing Handbook of Obesity: Clinical Applications, Third edition, an in-depth examination of all the clinical aspects relating to obesity.

Society's view of obesity has changed throughout history. In the past, obesity was perceived as a symbol indicative of strength and wealth; nowadays, it is identified as a rising threat to our collective well-being.

In the past, weight gain was traditionally associated with the normal aging process. Nowadays; however - thanks in part to our increasingly sedentary lifestyles - weight gain has become a growing trend among children. Obesity is an issue of particular interest in developed nations where its proliferation has reached almost epidemic proportions.

Handbook of Obesity: Clinical Applications delves into all the critical aspects of evaluation, prevention, medical management and treatment alternatives - delivering a comprehensive resource that aims to answer all clinical questions related to adult and pediatric obesity.

Edited by Drs. George Bray and Claude Bouchard - leading a team of world-recognized experts - Handbook of Obesity: Clinical Applications is an academic tour-de-force which features all the latest information in the field.

Pharmacological alternatives are thoroughly explored with individual chapters on sibutramine and orlistat (both FDA approved) and pramlintide (currently approved in Europe). The roles of culture and economic factors, as well as the evolving role of governments, are also amply discussed. With seventeen chapters - out of a total of forty - exclusively focused on the medical management of obesity including, among others, behavioral approaches, diets, exercise, neurohormonal issues, and gene therapy Handbook of Obesity: Clinical Applications is a must-have resource for endocrinologists, cardiologists, internal medicine clinicians, and other professionals working in the field.

This book is available from wholesalers, online retailers, book stores, as well as directly from informa Healthcare through www.informahealthcare.com.

About the Editors
George A. Bray is the current Boyd Professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is also Professor of Medicine at the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Bray has served with NIH, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and WHO. He received his A.B. in Chemistry from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

Claude Bouchard is the Executive Director of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and holder of the George A. Bray Chair in Nutrition. Prior to joining Pennington, Dr. Bouchard held the Donald B. Brown Research Chair on Obesity at Laval University where he was the Director of the Physical Activity Sciences Laboratory for almost 20 years. He holds a B.Ped. from Laval University in Quebec Canada; a M.Sc. in exercise physiology from the University of Oregon, in Eugene, Oregon; and a Ph.D. in population genetics from the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.

About informa Healthcare
informa Helathcare headquartered in London, England, is a division of Informa plc (London: INF) which employs 7,500 staff worldwide, and has offices in six continents. For more information, please visit www.informahealthcare.com. Is a new force in science publishing that delivers authoritative research and analysis, up-to-the-minute news, comment and debate for all sectors of the Healthcare and Life Sciences communities. informa Healthcare serves the commercial needs of business leaders, the research needs of the scientific community and the 'good practice' needs of healthcare professionals around the world.