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Preface. <p>Foreword.</p> <p>List of Contributors.</p> <p>Treating and Preventing Obesity: A Systematic Review of Evidence.</p> <p>1. Background.</p> <p>2. Systematic Literature Review&mdash;Methods.</p> <p>3. Preventing Obesity.</p> <p>4. Treating Obesity in Adults.</p> <p>5. Treating Obesity in Children and Adolescents.</p> <p>6. Quality of Life.</p> <p>7. Effects of Obesity Treatment on Diseases and Special Conditions.</p> <p>8. Economic Evaluation of Treatment Methods.</p> <p>9. Ethical Aspects.</p> <p>Glossary and Definitions.</p> <p>Index.</p>

"This book can serve as a starting point for clinicians planning better clinical trials on obesity. They illustrate very well the many areas that need more research." (<i>Journal of the National Medical Association</i>, Vol.97, No.3, March 2005) <p>"...an evidence based review of the current intervention strategies..." (<i>CAB Abstracts</i>, 2004)</p> <p>"This is a good overview of obesity. Among its strengths is its breadth of coverage..." (<i>Doody's Electronic Journal</i>)</p> <p>"...recommended for libraries serving doctors, nutritionists and medical students as a comprehensive look at the worldwide problems of obesity industrialized nations." (<i>E-STREAMS</i>, October 2004)</p> <p>"…a useful introductory text in the field of obesity." (<i>American Journal of Therapeutics</i>, July/August 2004)</p> <p>"...undoubtedly useful?suitable for any professional who is attempting to work in the field..." (<i>Journal of Human Nutrition & Dietics</i>)</p> <p>"One of the books great strengths is that is has been written with a very broad remit of assessing all that is relevant to obesity, and as such it has been bold enough to examine the evidence for a wide range of non-medical prevention and treatment strategies.... The text provides a wealth of information for the clinican to evaluate his/her own weight management approach with patients. ... a...definitive evidence based text which should serve as a reliable reference text for many years." (<i>European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology</i>)</p>

<b>J. Östman, MD, PhD,</b> is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Karolinska Institute. Dr. ֳtman was formerly head of the Center for Metabolism and Endocrinology, Huddinge University Hospital. He is past Chairman of the Swedish Society for Diabetology, and author of about 300 publications, including original articles, reviews, books, and book chapters. Major research topics are regulation of human adipose tissue metabolism, diabetes epidemiology, and transplantation of insulin producing tissue in human diabetes.<br /> <br /> <b>Mona</b> <b>Britton, MD, PhD</b>, is Professor of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Britton is Senior Medical Advisor at the Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU), Stockholm.<br /> <br /> <b>Egon Jonsson, PhD,</b> Leader of the WHO Health Evidence Network, and former Director of SBU, is Professor of Health Economics at the Department of Medicine,<br /> Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He is a member of the U.S. National<br /> Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine and, for 20 years, Co-editor of the International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care.

Obesity now represents a serious problem in industrialized nations. An increasingly large number of people, especially children, are overweight - leading to subsequent illness and a reduced life expectancy. <p>At long last, with this first evidence-based review of the current intervention strategies for treating and preventing obesity clinicians and health insurers have a guide that allows them to select the most efficient and cost-effective method of treatment for any given state of the illness. The whole is backed by extensive tables, a checklist for quality assurance and an extensive glossary.</p> <p>With a foreword by George A. Bray, Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University and Chief of the Clinical Obesity section:<br /> "Treating and Preventing Obesity - An Evidence Based Review" provides a careful and thoughtful assessment of this disease and the options for its control and treatment. It started with the medical model where cure is the outcome. This valuable report provides a timely new analysis of a growing problem.</p>

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