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George A. Bray
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Postscript: An Overview of Nutrition—Much Progress but Challenges Ahead
Nutrition in the twentieth century was mainly concerned with the individual substances found in food. At the same time it became firmly established that the disease pattern seen across the Western world is a d...
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Obesity: A Disease of Overnutrition
Obesity is a serious worldwide problem that is increasing in prevalence. Obesity results from increased energy intake from food exceeding what is needed for daily energy expenditure over a considerable period ...
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Nutrition Guide for Physicians and Related Healthcare Professionals
Nutrition plays a key role, whether we know it or not, in everyone’s life and is a key element in health and well-being. This book is intended to provide the basic information needed by physicians and members ...
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Postscript
Research studies over the last several decades convincingly demonstrate that the disease pattern seen across the Western world is a direct result of lifestyle and that diet plays a major role in this. This inf...
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The Mediterranean Diet: A Healthy Dietary Plan
The concept of a Mediterranean diet can be attributed to Ancel Keys. His insights began the study of this dietary pattern and its many variations. Components of the Mediterranean diet have been described and c...
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Obesity: Understanding and Achieving a Healthy Weight
Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, stigmatized disease process that is increasing in prevalence, affecting both adults and children. It is the result of a small positive energy imbalance from too much food or to...
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Therapeutic Management of Obesity
Obesity is a chronic relapsing disease process that is increasing in prevalence, affecting both adults and children. It is the result of a small positive energy imbalance from too much food, or too little acti...
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Some historical aspects of drug treatment for obesity
Janus was the Roman god with two faces — one face smiling, one scowling [2, 3]. He is frequently seen as the symbol for theater — tragedy and comedy being his two faces. Amphetamine, the first drug with a clinica...
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Surgical Treatment of the Overweight Patient
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Evaluation of the Overweight and Obese Patient
Determining body mass index and waist circumference are the first steps in evaluating the risk to an individual patient. This can be complemented by more sophisticated methods and supplemented with laboratory ...
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Current Theories Regarding the Influence of Diet and the Control of Obesity
Current theories regarding the role of diet in human obesity have evolved around the macronutrient composition of diet and its effect on weight maintenance. Obesity is the result of long-term positive energy b...
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Pharmacologic Therapy of Obesity
This chapter provides physicians with guide to current and potential drugs used for the treatment of obesity, excluding agents being developed based on molecular technologies. The molecular basis of obesity is...
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Drug Treatment of Obesity: The Argument in Favor
Treatment of obesity has many analogies with treatment of hypertension. Both diseases are defined by arbitrary cut points on a continuous variable. The impact of health of any deviation varies with the degree ...
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Type-Specific Concordance in Young Diabetic Monozygotic Twins
In 1972, Tattersall and Pyke (1) indicated that the level of concordance for diabetes among monozygotic twins depended upon the age of onset of diabetes in the index twin. If diabetes developed before 40 years...
