Product Description

The second edition of this popular handbook provides an up-to-date background on obesity and an understanding of weight management for health professionals.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #498281 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

Review
'Due to the significant information gained in obesity studies, this is a very worthy and long awaited second edition.' - Doody Publishing Review

From the Back Cover
Obesity has not, until very recently, featured very strongly in medical training. There has been a widespread view that becoming overweight is a sign of a weak personality, a combination of gluttony and apparent sloth, accompanied very often by a degree of mendacity. A reluctance amongst medical practitioners to become involved in obesity and weight management has many contributory factors, clouded by the victim-blaming goal, which we now know to be inappropriate, on medical grounds to convert a fat person into a thin one by way of inflicting a cure.
The second edition of this popular handbook provides an up-to-date background on obesity and an understanding of weight management for health professionals and offers outlines for management plans which can be instituted at a primary care level.

About the Author
AFFILIATION: Michael Lean, MA, MD, FRCP, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Nutrition, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, University of Glasgow, UK
ADDRESS: Prof. MEJ Lean, MD, FRCP University Department of Human Nutrition Glasgow Royal infirmary Glasgow G3 2ER UK lmh3p@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

Michael Lean, MA, MD, FRCP, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Nutrition, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, University of Glasgow, UK