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INTRODUCTION TO OBESITY

  Introduction  
  Definitions and Classification of Obesity 1 Jose F Caro,MD
  The Disease Burden Associated with Overweight and Obesity 2 Aviva Must, PhD and Nicola M McKeown, PhD
FACTORS INFLUENCING OBESITY  
  The Regulation of Body Weight in Humans 7.2

Leanne Redman, PhD, Darcy Johannsen, PhD, Eric Ravussin, PhD

  Regulation of Energy Intake in Humans 3.1 Andrea L. Tracy, PhD & Stephen C. Benoit, PhD
  The Regulation of Food Intake in Humans 7.3

Graham Finlayson, Jason Halford, Neil King, John Blundell

  Regulation of Energy Expenditure in Humans 4a John Speakman
  Neuroendocrine Integration of Body Weight Regulation 5 Matthias Tschöp, M.D., and Tamas L. Horvath, DVM, Ph.D.
     
  Lessons from Models of Monogenic and Polygenic Obesity in Rodents 6 Julie E. McMinn, PhD, RD, and Rudolph L. Leibel, MD.
  The Genetics of Obesity in Humans 8 Prof.Stephen O'Rahilly, MD and I. Sadaf Farooqi, MD
  Environmental Contributions to Obesity 7 James O. Hill PhD, and William T. Donahoo
  Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis and Obesity 7.1 J A Levine, MD
HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF OBESITY  
  Clinical Problems Caused by Obesity 13 Professor Peter G Kopelman, MD
 

Effects of Obesity on the Quality of Life 14

Marsha D Marcus, PhD
  Obesity in Children 16 Michael Rosenbaum, MD

THE OBESITY SYNDROME: CLINICAL PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

     
  Dyslipidemia of Obesity 10 Giacomo Ruotolo, MD, PhD, Barbara V. Howard, PhD, and David C. Robbins, MD
  Endocrine Function in Human Obesity 12 Yasser Ousman, M.D., and Kenneth D. Burman, M.D.
  Carbohydrate Metabolism in Obesity 11 F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, MD Hyperlink to Goldfine
  Lipid Metabolism in Obesity  
     
  The Metabolic Syndrome 9 Gerald M Reaven,MD
PREVENTION OF OBESITY  
  Obesity Prevention 22 Barto Burguera, MD, PhD

TREATMENT OF OBESITY

   Pharmacologic Treatment of Obesity in Adults 15

Louis J. Aronne, MD, Jonathan A. Waitman, MD, Kathy Keenan Isoldi, MS, RD, CDE

     
  Behavioral Treatment of Obesity 17 Rena R Wing,PhD
  Dietary Treatment of Obesity 18 Johanna T Dwyer, DSc, RD and Kathleen J Melanson, PhD,RD,LD and Lisa N Faucon MS, RD
  Exercise Treatment of Obesity 19 Loretta DiPietro, MPH, PhD1 and Nina S. Stachenfeld, PhD
  Surgical Treatment of obesity 20 Walter J Pories, MD, FACS
  New Molecular Targets for the Treatment of Obesity 21

Syann Lee, Ph.D. and Jeffrey M. Zigman, M.D., Ph.D

 
     
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