Obesity The Biography

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191614088

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Obesity: The Biography by Sander L. Gilman Pdf

According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis. Is obesity a disease itself or a symptom of underlying physiological or psychological illnesses? Is it a sign of social excess and therefore not a disease in the medical sense at all? Is it really 'new'? Sander L. Gilman, a leading authority in the social and cultural history of the body, presents a fascinating account of the history of obesity, looking at the changing attitudes towards the body, from regarding it as 'God's temple' to more mechanical and practical concerns from the Enlightenment onwards. In the eighteenth century obesity was understood as a problem of the affluent; today the affluent are more likely to have a personal trainer and a healthier diet, and it is the poorer classes who are more likely to be overweight. Gilman considers obesity in many contexts - including a chapter on obesity in China and the impact of modernization and Westernization on this very different culture. Taking the issue up to the present day, Gilman examines the wider political and social implications obesity raises, considering whether obesity should be cured by diet or surgery, by psychotherapy or economic improvement, by healthier food choices or by social relocation.

Author : Laura Dawes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780674281448

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Childhood Obesity in America by Laura Dawes Pdf

Obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Laura Dawes traces changes in diagnosis, treatment, and popular conceptions of the most serious health problem facing American children today, and makes the case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective public health policy.

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199557974

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Obesity: The Biography by Sander L. Gilman Pdf

A history of man's complex relationship with body weight explores its connections with social welfare, income, diet, and changing attitudes towards body image.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:916073039

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Obesity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony H. Barnett,Sudhesh Kumar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780470011096

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Obesity and Diabetes by Anthony H. Barnett,Sudhesh Kumar Pdf

Obesity has become the most common chronic disease of the present day, with significant increases in prevalence in populations across the world and all age groups. This has resulted in a dramatic increase in obesity-related metabolic and cardiovascular complications, making it an important public health issue. Type 2 diabetes associated with obesity or 'diabesity' is today the most common form of type 2 diabetes. It is also associated with a number of other cardiovascular risk factors, which constitute the metabolic syndrome. Effective management of 'diabesity' is crucial to the reduction of morbidity and premature mortality due to cardiovascular disease. This book comprises chapters written by leading international experts on various aspects of obesity-related diabetes. As a practical reference guide, it is suitable for all professionals with an interest in this field. Emerging problems such as childhood 'diabesity' and the impact of obesity on polycystic ovary syndrome will be of interest not only to paediatricians and endocrinologists, but also to general practitioners and other healthcare professionals. The contemporary approach to the clinical assessment of obesity and its management in both primary and secondary care settings is also described.

Author : Per Björntorp
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015054441137

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International Textbook of Obesity by Per Björntorp Pdf

The prevalence of obesity has now reached such proportions that in many parts of the world it is one of the most dominant health problems. Obesity leads to a number of serious diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke and cancer as well as psychological problems and a poor quality of life. Obesity research is now very active and understanding of the disease has greatly increased. The International Textbook of Obesity offers a definitive coverage of the area looking at epidemiology, causes, current research and management. * Gives an up to date account of the field * Edited by a leading expert in the area * Contributions from an impressive array of authors including many from young researchers giving new perspectives on the issues This will be a lasting reference for a wide range of academic and professional health care workers, including obesity research specialists, diebetologists, nutritionists, practising physicians and endocrinologists.

Author : Marisa Meltzer
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316413992

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This Is Big by Marisa Meltzer Pdf

From a contributor to The Cut, one of Vogue's most anticipated books "bravely and honestly" (Busy Philipps) talks about weight loss and sheds a light on Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch: "a triumphant chronicle" (New York Times). Marisa Meltzer began her first diet at the age of five. Growing up an indoors-loving child in Northern California, she learned from an early age that weight was the one part of her life she could neither change nor even really understand. Fast forward nearly four decades. Marisa, also a contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Times, comes across an obituary for Jean Nidetch, the Queens, New York housewife who founded Weight Watchers in 1963. Weaving Jean's incredible story as weight loss maven and pathbreaking entrepreneur with Marisa's own journey through Weight Watchers, she chronicles the deep parallels, and enduring frustrations, in each woman's decades-long efforts to lose weight and keep it off. The result is funny, unexpected, and unforgettable: a testament to how transformation goes far beyond a number on the scale.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Health behavior
ISBN : OCLC:505480308

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The Surgeon General's Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation, 2010 by Anonim Pdf

In the 2001 Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, former Surgeon General David Satcher, MD, PhD, warned of the negative effects of the increasing weight of American citizens and outlined a public health response to reverse the trend. The Surgeon General plans to strengthen and expand this blueprint for action created by her predecessor. Although the country has made some strides since 2001, the prevalence of obesity, obesity-related diseases, and premature death remains too high.

Author : Francine R. Kaufman, M.D.
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780553900842

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Diabesity by Francine R. Kaufman, M.D. Pdf

Experts now predict that more than one-third of American children born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the link between obesity and diabetes, this passionate, frightening–but ultimately hopeful–book points the way to a solution. To enter Dr. Francine Kaufman’s clinic is to see the future of America: a 220-pound twelve-year-old boy…a 267-pound thirteen-year-old girl…their concerned but equally overweight parents…the human faces and human suffering behind the epidemic of type 2 diabetes that threatens to overwhelm our health care system. Once a disease of the elderly, type 2 diabetes now strikes adults in their prime–and, increasingly, children. It has nearly doubled in the last decade. The cause? Our soaring rates of obesity. Diabesity takes us to the front lines of the fight against this preventable but deadly disease. Through vivid patient stories, it explains how excess weight destroys the body’s ability to process sugar properly–with life-threatening consequences. It shows what happens when the genes that evolved to protect us from famine collide with a sedentary lifestyle that has put bacon cheeseburgers on every corner. And it demonstrates why our usual blame-the-victim response is futile in face of the complex, worldwide forces behind this epidemic. Detailing the tools for change at every level–from families to school systems to government–and reporting on innovative programs that are already making a difference, Diabesity offers a compelling action plan for winning this battle.

Author : Judith Moore
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101213247

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Fat Girl by Judith Moore Pdf

A Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2005 (Entertainment Weekly) For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M.F.K. Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore’s deep longing for family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles. “Searingly honest without affectation… Moore emerged from her hellish upbringing as a kind of softer Diane Arbus, wielding pen instead of camera.”—The Seattle Times “Frank, often funny—intelligent and entertaining.”—People (starred review) “God, I love this book. It is wise, funny, painful, revealing, and profoundly honest.”—Anne Lamott “Judith Moore grabs the reader by the collar, and shakes up our notion of life in the fat lane.”—David Sedaris “Stark… lyrical, and often funny, Judith Moore ambushes you on the very first page, and in short order has lifted you up and broken your heart.”—Newsweek “A slap-in-the-face of a book—courageous, heartbreaking, fascinating, and darkly funny.”—Augusten Burroughs

Author : Edward Eaton Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736936719

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A Fat Chance by Edward Eaton Mason Pdf

Dr. Edward Eaton Mason, MD, Ph.D., FACS, the "Father of Obesity Surgery," writes about his remarkable life on his 100th birthday. Born in a taxi cab in Boise, Idaho, on October 16, 1920, the year women got the right to vote, his mother Dora Mason decided one child was enough. She was a teacher and sculptress who created the original Nile Kinnick bust. His father, Edward F. Mason, was a professor of photojournalism at the U. of Iowa. Raised by teacher parents, Ed became a professor of surgery at the U. of Iowa, training thousands of medical students and surgeons. He did research in 1965 with Dr. Chikashi Ito from Japan to treat peptic ulcer disease with gastric bypass surgery. His discovery that peptic ulcer disease was not helped, but his patients lost weight, led to his discovery of obesity surgery. Also, this surgery could treat Type-2 diabetes by weight loss and dumping food containing glucose directly to the small intestine, resulting in the release of GLP-1 hormones. Severe obesity was an epidemic disease resulting in heart ailments, high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and strokes. His surgery rescued the morbidly obese patients.

Author : Sean Martin
Publisher : Oldcastle Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781843444206

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A Short History of Disease by Sean Martin Pdf

Disease has plagued human civilisations throughout history, claiming more lives than natural disasters and warfare combined. The Black Death took the lives of one third of Europe's population in the fourteenth century. The conquest of the New World was accompanied by devastating waves of smallpox. The Industrial Revolution happened in a world blighted by the diseases of urbanisation and overcrowding, typhoid and cholera, typhus and TB. New diseases such as AIDS, Ebola, and COVID-19 present further challenges to medical science and healthcare. A Short History of Disease chronicles the historical and geographical evolution of infectious and non-infectious diseases, from their prehistoric origins to the present. It offers a comprehensive guide to ailments and the medicines developed to combat them. Analysing case studies - including the Black Death, Spanish Flu, cholera, leprosy, syphilis, cancer, and Ebola - Sean Martin maps the growth of our understanding of disease. The book offers a fascinating insight into an important area of social history, providing an accessible introduction to disease and the ongoing quest to protect human health. The second edition contains an afterword on COVID-19, looking at the origins and nature of the virus, and how governments across the globe dealt with the most serious public health emergency in a century.

Author : Charlotte Cooper
Publisher : Women's Press (UK)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X006044768

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Fat and Proud by Charlotte Cooper Pdf

In Fat and Proud, activist Charlotte Cooper charts the evolution of the fat rights movement. Demonstrating the extent of fatphobia in society, she explains not only how it affects fat women, but how the fear of being fat oppresses all women. She also looks at health issues, challenging the medicalization of fat people and exposing the myths and dangers of dieting and thinness. Throughout are the voices of fat women relating their experiences of discrimination and pain--but also their affirmations of positive self-image and esteem. Fat and Proud represents a coming to power of the fat rights movement; it calls for a greater appreciation of body-size diversity, so that all of us might live in and enjoy our bodies without fear or shame.

Author : Tania Kelly Roxborogh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Obesity
ISBN : 0143019821

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Fat Like Me by Tania Kelly Roxborogh Pdf

A searingly honest, personal account of the living hell of being very, very fat. New Zealand children s writer and teacher Tania Roxborogh has had a weight problem since late teens and in this book she talks about the factors in her life which made her obsessed with food, the despair of yet another failed diet and the humiliating behaviours that result from being fat. Tania eventually resorts to stomach stapling surgery to control her weight and since then has dropped over 50 kg of weight. In doing so she has transformed not only her own life, but those of her husband and two daughters.

Author : Heidi Bond,Jenna Glatzer
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496406743

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Who's the New Kid? by Heidi Bond,Jenna Glatzer Pdf

At nine years old, Breanna Bond weighed a whopping 186 pounds. Just walking up the stairs to her room was a challenge. Her legs chafed to the point of bleeding from rubbing against each other, and her school days were filled with taunts of “Hey, Fatty!” Breanna’s mom, Heidi, was devastated and wondered, How can I get my daughter healthy again? Who’s the New Kid? shows readers how Heidi helped her daughter lose weight without the aid of fad diets, medication, or surgery and how other parents can do the same with their kids. In just over a year, Heidi’s plan worked! Breanna dropped 40 percent of her body weight and was transformed from a morbidly obese child who spent her days in front of the TV eating chips and chocolate to a vibrant, healthy, energetic little girl. Filled with helpful diagnostic tools, easy-to-make recipes, eye-opening nutritional information, fun exercise ideas, and practical tips and advice, Who’s the New Kid? will not only show parents how to help their kids lose weight naturally but also introduce them to simple, yet effective lifestyle changes that will benefit the entire family.