Adult Obesity: A Paediatric Challenge (Frontiers in Life Science S.) [Hardcover]

Linda Voss (Editor), Terry Wilkin (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 19, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0415300150 | ISBN-13: 978-0415300155 | Edition: 1

While it is increasingly clear that adult obesity begins in childhood, preventing this condition is a major challenge for the pediatrician.

Adult Obesity: A Paediatric Challenge highlights the causes and consequences of obesity, bringing a modern understanding to the treatment of a heavily stigmatized problem. This collection of essays, based on presentations made at a national symposium on obesity, focuses on managing the condition and its outcomes. World renowned authors offer a wide-ranging perspective of obesity as a global problem and explore its devastating metabolic, social, and political impact.

Clarifying a number of important issues, this compilation provides answers to many of the questions surrounding this dangerous condition. It offers sound advice on confronting obesity and conveys the urgency that this problem demands and deserves.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This book is to be thoroughly recommended.
- in Clinical Nutrition

The volume achieves its goal quite well. A focus on childhood, when much of obesity originates, is an appropriate target for the United Kingdom as well as for the rest of the world. The list of comorbidities, the complex world that has led to the blossoming of the problem, and the lack of efficacy of most treatments lead to the inexorable conclusion that prevention is the best approach on a population-wide basis. Some countries have accepted this tenant more vigorously than others. This volume, in company with many other works, surely supports such an approach.
-American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

About the Author

Linda Voss is a graduate of the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland and went on to gain a Masters in Education and Psychology. She co-ordinated the long running Wessex Growth Study for 13 years and has contributed widely to the literature both on childhood growth and psychosocial aspects of short stature. She received her PhD from Southampton in 1998. She is currently senior Research Fellow at the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth and Co-ordinator of the EarlyBird Diabetes Study.

Terence Willkin graduated from St. Andrew's Medical School in 1969 and received his MD on thyroid autoimmunity in 1978. Previous posts include:
Associate Professor of Endocrinology, University of Montpellie and Welcome Senior Research Fellow/Reader, University of Southampton. He is a prolific contributor to the research of thyroid disease, endocrine autoimmunity and osteoporosis. He set up and directed the Wessex Growth Study for a number of years, before moving to Plymouth to set up the EarlyBird Diabetes Study. He is currently Professor of Medicine at the Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth and Honorary Consultant Endocrinologist, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, UK.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 102 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (June 19, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415300150
• ISBN-13: 978-0415300155
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,541,241 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)