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Combating the obesity epidemic : treatment options / presented by Jack H. Wilmore.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obesity--Treatment.
- Obesity.
- Genre:
- Lectures.
- Instructional films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (59 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- Monterey, CA : Healthy Learning, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Combating the Obesity Epidemic: Treatment Options features an overview of the primary approaches employed to address one of the most serious healthcare issues in the United States. Designed as a resource for health/fitness professionals who want to confront the obesity epidemic through science and practice, the DVD looks at the results of several of the studies in the scientific literature on each of the treatment options and discusses the relative effectiveness of each alternative. The DVD also details several factors (energy balance-related and genetic) that can affect weight loss efforts.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Exercise-physical activity
- Weight-reducing diets
- Behaviorial treatment
- Combination interventions
- Pharmacotherapy
- Gastric bypass surgery
- Summary of interventions and long-term follow-up
- Potential factors mediating weight loss
- What role does exercise of physical activity play in weight control?
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 18, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 864830373
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