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Introduction
HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF OBESITY

Jose F Caro,MD
  Definitions and Classification of Obesity
Jose F Caro,MD
  The Disease Burden Associated with Overweight and Obesity
Aviva Must,MD and Nichola M.  McKeown, MD
  The Regulation of Body Weight in Humans Leane Redman, PhD , Darcy Johannsen, PhD and Eric Ravussin, PhD
  Regulation of Energy Intake in Humans

Andrea l Tracy, PhD and Stephen C Benoit, hD

  Regulation of Food Intake in Humans Graham Finlayson, Jason Halford Neil King and John Blundell
  Regulation of Energy Expenditure in Humans
John Speakman
  Neuroendocrine Integration of Body Weight Regulation
Matthias Tscho, MD andTamas L Horvath, DVM
   
  Lessons from Models of Monogenic and Polygenic Obesity in Rodents
Julie E McMinn, PhD and Rudolph L. Leibel, MD.
The Genetics of Obesity in Humans
Prof.Stephen O'Rahilly I Sadaf Farooqi, MD
  Environmental Contributions to Obesity
James O Hill and William T Donahoo
  Non-exercise Activity Thermogenesis Dr. J. A.  Levine,
  HEALTH IMPLICATIONS OF OBESITY  
  Clinical Problems caused by Obesity Ioannis Kyrou and Martin O Weickert
  Special Considerations for Childhood Obesity
arsha D Marcus, PhDMichael Rosenbaum
  THE OBESITY SYNDROME; CLINICAL PATHOPHYSIOLOGY  
  Dyslipidemia of Obesity

 Giacomo Ruotolo, M.D., Ph.D, FAHA, Barbara V. Howard, Ph.D. AND David C. Robbins, MD

   Endocrine Function in Obesity Yasser Ousman, MD and Kenneth D burman, MD
   
  The Metabolic Syndrome
Gerald M Reaven
  PREVENTION OF OBESITY  
  Prevention of Obesity
George A. Bray, MD, MACP, MACE



  TREATMENT OF OBESITY  
   Pharmacologic Treatment of Obesity in Adults

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

     
  Behavioral Treatment of Obesity
Rena R Wing,PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Brown Medical School/Miriam Hosp 164 Summit Ave, Providence, RI 02906
  Dietary Treatment of Obesity
Johanna T Dwyer, DSc, RD and
Kathleen J Melanson, PhD,RD,LD, and Lisa N Faucon, MS, RD
  Exercise Treatment of Obesity
oretta DiPietro, MPH, PhD and Nina S Stachenfeld, PhD
  Surgical Treatment of obesity
Walter J Pories, MD, FACS
  New Molecular Targets for the Treatment of Obesity

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