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Controversies in Obesity

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Obesity: Why Bother?
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    Chapter 2 Too Late to Challenge the Modern Obesity Epidemic?
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    Chapter 3 Government Action to Tackle Obesity
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    Chapter 4 Why Are Governments Abdicating from Dealing with the Obesity Crisis?
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    Chapter 5 Childhood Habits and the Obesity Epidemic
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    Chapter 6 Obesity and Sexuality
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    Chapter 7 Fat on Display
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    Chapter 8 The Emerging Paradigm Shift in Understanding the Causes of Obesity
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    Chapter 9 Adenoviruses and Obesity
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    Chapter 10 The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Obesity
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    Chapter 11 Saturated Fat in Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity: Friend or Foe?
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    Chapter 12 Childhood Obesity and the Environment
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    Chapter 13 Genetics and Epigenetics: Myths or Facts?
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    Chapter 14 Chronicities of Modernity and the Contained Body as an Explanation for the Global Pandemic of Obesity, Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome
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    Chapter 15 Screening for Type 2 Diabetes
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    Chapter 16 Assessing the Cardiometabolic Risk of Obesity: Importance of Visceral/Ectopic Fat and of the Use of Hypertriglyceridemic Waist
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    Chapter 17 Moving Beyond Scales and Tapes: The Edmonton Obesity Staging System
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    Chapter 18 Obstructive Sleep Apnea
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    Chapter 19 Obesity and the Heart Disease Patient: Controversies Abound
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    Chapter 20 Obesity, Diabetes, and Dental Health: Relationship and Management
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    Chapter 21 Very Low-Calorie Diets: Saint or Sinner?
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    Chapter 22 Obesity and the Mind
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    Chapter 23 Adipose Tissue Expansion for Improving Glycemic Control
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    Chapter 24 Should Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Be Restricted in the Obese?
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    Chapter 25 Is It Time to Rename Obesity Management as Secondary Prevention?
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    Chapter 26 Childhood Obesity: What Harm, Any Solutions?
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    Chapter 27 Residential Weight Loss Camps for Children and Young People
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    Chapter 28 Sibutramine and Rimonabant: A Postmortem Forensic Examination
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    Chapter 29 Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding: The Physician’s Choice in Bariatric Surgery
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    Chapter 30 Challenges Faced by the Bariatric Multidisciplinary Team
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    Chapter 31 The Controversies Around Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
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    Chapter 32 Weight Gain on Glucose-Lowering Agents
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    Chapter 33 Tipping the Scales of Truth: Why the Energy Balance Equation Is a Dangerous Lie
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    Chapter 34 OTC Slimming Aids
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    Chapter 35 Overcoming Sloth
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Title
Controversies in Obesity
Published by
Springer-Verlag London, January 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-2834-2
ISBNs
978-1-4471-2834-2, 978-1-4471-2833-5
Editors

David W. Haslam, Arya M. Sharma, Carel W. le Roux

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 7%
Mexico 1 2%
Australia 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 39 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 22%
Student > Bachelor 6 13%
Researcher 6 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 9%
Other 10 22%
Unknown 5 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 11%
Social Sciences 5 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 9%
Environmental Science 2 4%
Other 11 24%
Unknown 7 16%