The management of eating disorders and obesity (2nd ed.)

This thoroughly revised second edition provides physicians and other health care professionals with a concise, practical, state-of-the-art reference on obesity, eating disorders, and their management.

Sharing their personal experiences in providing treatment, the experts writing here comprehensively examine obesity and eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and binge eating.

They review the history, diagnosis, prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity, and medical complications of each of these diseases, along with the scientific evidence for various pharmacologic therapies.;Extensive coverage is given to the treatment of obesity, including the role of exercise, very-low-calorie diets, behavioral strategies, combination therapies, and surgical techniques.

New coverage includes information on the Atkins dies as well has issues of hunger and satiety and what has been learned about the genes regulating satiety.

Patient-centered and timely, The Management of Eating Disorders and Obesity is an essential gold-standard resource for health-care providers seeking maximal impact on their patient's health and an end to the cycle of recurrent attempts and failures.