TY - BOOK AU - Whitehead,Saffron A. AU - Bano,Gul TI - Managing obesity: a practical guide for clinicians SN - 9781911510178 (pbk.) : U1 - 616.3'98'06 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Banbury PB - Scion Publishing KW - Obesity KW - Treatment KW - Prevention KW - Health and Fitness KW - eflch KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc N1 - Specialized N2 - The pandemic of obesity in the majority of countries of the world has become a major health problem: obesity leads to a number of serious diseases including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, cancer, psychological problems and a poor quality of life. Obesity affects almost every branch of medicine and clinical practice and this puts a huge strain on healthcare provision. 'Managing Obesity' has been written specifically for non-specialists (GPs, junior doctors, and medical students) who increasingly need to treat obese patients ER -