This is a timely and informative updated edition for all health care providers challenged with
helping patients manage weight. Similar to the well-reviewed first edition this updated title
is directed toward individuals who wish to read further about targeted topics rather than find
an introduction to the field. This second edition again provides insights into recent
scientific advances in obesity research and provides the most up-to-date instruction about
current treatment issues and strategies for both adults and children. While several of the
chapters are no longer relevant from the first edition other topics have emerged as
interesting and current. This edition will keep the two-section format of Physiology and
Pathophysiology and Clinical Management but it increases the first section to 10 chapters and
reduces the second section to 12 chapters. The plan is to keep this edition in the range of
about 350 to 400 maximum printed pages. The volume is again divided into two parts. Part 1
covers new discoveries in the physiological control of body weight as well as the
pathophysiology of obesity. Expert authors discuss pathways that control food intake energy
expenditure and peripheral nutrient metabolism including a look at the emerging evidence of
the role of adipose tissue as an endocrine organ. Part 2 covers all the key issues central to
clinical management including recent developments in the epidemiology of obesity assessment
of the obese patient behavioral strategies in weight management dietary modification as a
weight management strategy physical activity as a weight management strategy weight loss
drugs surgical approaches to obesity and other important clinical topics. An essential
practical text that sorts synthesizes and interprets the latest information on obesity-related
topics this second edition will be an essential resource for clinical endocrinologists and
other health care providers across a broad spectrum of specialties.
