Fat Matters: From Sociology to ScienceIn a consumerist society obsessed with body image and thinness, obesity levels have reached an all-time high. This multi-faceted book written by a range of experts, explores the social, cultural, clinical and psychological factors that lie behind the OCyObesity EpidemicOCO. It is required reading for the many healthcare professionals dealing with the effects of obesity and for anyone who wants to know more about the causes of weight gain and the best ways of dealing with it.Fat Matters covers a range of issues from sociology through medicine to technology. This is not a book for the highly specialised expert. Rather it is a book that shows the diversity of approaches to the phenomenon of obesity, tailored to the reader who wants to be up-to-date and well-informed on a subject that is possibly as frequently discussed and as misunderstood as the weather." |
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Contents
| 1 | |
Body image and obesity | 5 |
Chapter 2 Social determinants of obesity | 13 |
Chapter 3 Assessing fatness | 23 |
Prevention and treatment | 39 |
weight management treatment and prevention | 51 |
Myths and reality | 67 |
A lifelong struggle with weight | 85 |
Chapter 8 The patient and the epert working together in weight management | 93 |
Chapter 9 Physical inactivity appetite regulation and obesity | 105 |
Chpater 10 Obesity a psychological condition? | 115 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Fat Matters: From Sociology to Science |
| Editors | Gina Tsichlia, Dr Alex Johnstone |
| Publisher | M&K Update Ltd, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1907830391, 9781907830396 |
| Length | 130 pages |
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