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The 2002 Official Patient's Sourcebook on Obesity: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age eBook
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| This sourcebook has been created for patients who have decided to make education and Internet-based research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it also tells patients where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to obesity, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on obesity. Following an introductory chapter, the sourcebook is organized into three parts. PART I: THE ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1. The Essentials on Obesity: Guidelines; Chapter 2. Seeking Guidance; Chapter 3. Clinical Trials and Obesity; PART II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVANCED MATERIAL; Chapter 4. Studies on Obesity; Chapter 5. Patents on Obesity; Chapter 6. Books on Obesity; Chapter 7. Multimedia on Obesity; Chapter 8. Periodicals and News on Obesity; Chapter 9. Physician Guidelines and Databases; Chapter 10. Dissertations on Obesity; PART III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. Researching Your Medications; Appendix B. Researching Alternative Medicine; Appendix C. Researching Nutrition; Appendix D. Finding Medical Libraries; Appendix E. Your Rights and Insurance; Appendix F. NIH Consensus Statement on Health Implications of Obesity; Appendix G. NIH Consensus Statement on Gastrointestinal Surgery for Severe Obesity; ONLINE GLOSSARIES; OBESITY GLOSSARY;INDEX. Related topics include: Adiposis, Adiposity, Adiposogenital Dystrophy, Babinski-Froelich Syndrome, Dystrophia Adiposogenitalis, Frolich's Syndrome, Hypothalamic Infantilism-Obesity, hypoventilation associated with extreme obesity, Launois-Cleret Syndrome, Overweight, Pickwickian syndrome, Sexual Infantilism. |
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