The obesity reality : a comprehensive approach to a growing problem / / Naheed Ali
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| Autore: |
Ali Naheed <1981->
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| Titolo: |
The obesity reality : a comprehensive approach to a growing problem / / Naheed Ali
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012 |
| New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2012 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (351 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.3/98 |
| Soggetto topico: | MEDICAL - Endocrinology & Metabolism |
| MEDICAL - Nutrition | |
| Body weight | |
| Obesity | |
| Weight loss | |
| Metabolism - Disorders | |
| Weight Loss | |
| Body Weight | |
| Metabolic Diseases | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-321) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Understanding obesity -- The diagnosis -- Causes and symptoms -- Treatment -- Obesity in America -- Worldwide obesity -- Childhood obesity -- Mental health -- Blame and guilt -- The economics -- The art of exercise -- Finding motivation. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Although every day we read news reports linking health problems to diet and lifestyle, there remains a dearth of books on the topic that consider obesity from a variety of standpoints that include medical, personal, financial, and related considerations. The Obesity Reality discusses these viewpoints to explain how and why the problem exists both in the United States and around the world, and in men, women, children. More than a billion people are overweight |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The obesity reality |
| ISBN: | 979-82-16-41913-6 |
| 979-82-16-29176-3 | |
| 1-280-65745-6 | |
| 9786613634382 | |
| 1-4422-1448-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911154735703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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