Adult obesity : a paediatric challenge /

Adult obesity : a paediatric challenge /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2003.
Description:	xii, 89 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Obesity -- Congresses. Obesity -- Etiology -- Congresses. Obesity -- prevention & control -- Collected Works. Obesity -- prevention & control -- Congresses. Health Policy -- Collected Works. Health Policy -- congresses. Obesity -- Child -- Collected Works. Obesity -- Child -- Congresses. Obesity -- genetics -- Collected Works. Obesity -- genetics -- congresses. Primary Health Care -- Collected Works. Primary Health Care -- congresses. Self Concept -- Collected Works. Self Concept -- Congresses. Obesity. Obesity -- Etiology. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5042101

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Other authors / contributors:	Wilkin, Terence J. Voss, Linda, 1945-
ISBN:	0415300150 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Contributors
Preface
Part I. The issue
1. Obesity: a global problem
2. Underactivity or overnutrition?
Part II. Nature and nurture
3. Do our genes make us fat?
4. The seeds are sown in childhood
Part III. Opportunities and threats
5. Social inequalities, nutrition and obesity
6. Self-image and the stigma of obesity
7. The view from primary care
Part IV. The challenge
8. Adult obesity: a paediatric challenge
Index