Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians intends to educate physicians and
nutritionists about the wide ranges of approaches to weight control from non-traditional
sources. The options for weight management in conventional practices are limited to a small
number of medications a confusing array of dietary approaches and surgical procedures with
their inherent risks and complications. Unfortunately medical practitioners are not exposed to
nutrition and weight control principles during training and thus are reluctant to manage their
patients weight control issues. This volume is structured into 4 sections: Introduction to
Weight Management Disorders Morbidity and Mortality of Obesity Therapy of Obesity and
Integrative Medicine and Obesity. Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians
represents a powerful collaboration of dozens of leading experts in the fields of nutrition
weight management and integrative medicine who have managed countless numbers of patients and
summarized the research from thousands of articles to create an up-to- date state of the art
guide for healthcare practitioners allied health professionals and public health authorities
who manage those who are overweight obese along with the associated metabolic consequences.
