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Counseling Overweight Adults
If you find it a struggle to motivate clients to change their behaviors in order to lose weight, this book is for you. Based on a unique strategy developed by Robert F. Kushner, MD, Coundeling Overweight Adults: the Lifestyle Patterns Approach and Toolkit addresses three key areas of weight management: eating patterns, exercise patterns, and coping patterns. In this book, you'll learn how to uncover and overcome your patient's unique challenges. This book will guide you through the Lifestyle Patterns Inventory, an innovative way to identify the eating, exercise, and coping styles of a patricular patient. The book also provides tools, sample dialogues, and counseling tips that will help you customize strategies for your patient's individual needs.
Dr. Kushner's Personality Type Diet
Outlines a diet plan that can be adapted to individual lifestyles and needs, allowing readers to identify specific weight-loss challenges and overcome problematic eating patterns.
Nutrition and Bariatric Surgery
Bariatric surgery has led to improved health outcomes including significant weight loss and reduction in co-morbidities among patients with obesity. Clinical practice guidelines recommend that patients considering bariatric surgery undergo a comprehensive nutritional assessment. Nutrition and Bariatric Surgery is the first comprehensive book that u
Six Factors to Fit
"Dr. Robert Kushner, brings his novel way of tackling weight that starts with YOU - your lifestyle, your habits, your mindset. Through his latest research and development of the scientifically-validated Six Factor Quiz, he discovered the 6 factors that end up being major barriers to successful weight management. Once you know your factors, you are given a personalized weight loss plan to help you eat better, be more active, gain energy, improve your mood, boost confidence and find the fun in healthy living"--
Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle – the manner in which people live – is fundamental to health, wellness, and prevention of disease. It follows that attention to lifestyle is critically important to effective and successful health care. But here’s the challenge: health care professionals receive very little, if any, formal training about lifestyle counseling and therefore are ill equipped to incorporate lifestyle issues into clinical practice. In response, “Lifestyle Medicine” is evolving as a means to fill this knowledge gap. Lifestyle medicine approaches health and wellness by harnessing the power of lifestyle-related behaviors and influencing the environment we live in. It is a formal approach that pro...
Treatment of the Obese Patient
The aim of this book is to inform clinicians of recent advances in obesity research and provide a review of current treatment issues and strategies. Part 1 covers new discoveries in the physiological control of body weight, as well as the pathophysiology of obesity. Part 2 covers a range of issues that are central to the clinical management of obese patients. This illustrated volume will stimulate and engage clinicians.
Clinical Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Disease
Nutrition has been identified as one of the most neglected, but important aspects of gastroenterology. Clinical Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Disease covers all of the vital aspects of nutrition and serves as the definitive resource on this topic. Dr. Alan Buchman has teamed up with more than 70 world renowned leaders in the field to provide today’s professional specializing in gastrointestinal disease with a practical guide that examines and explains the necessary elements and principles of nutrition. With more than 100 images and 180 tables, Clinical Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Disease contains essential information to optimally and successfully manage pediatric and adult patients. Som...
Obesity Prevention and Treatment
The World Health Organization estimates that there are 2.1 billion individuals with obesity globally. Nearly three quarters of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. The average individual with obesity cuts ten years off their life expectancy, yet less than 40% of physicians routinely counsel individuals concerning the adverse health consequences of obesity. Obesity Prevention and Treatment: A Practical Guide equips healthcare practitioners to include effective weight management counselling in the daily practice of medicine. Written by lifestyle medicine pioneer and cardiologist, Dr. James Rippe and obesity expert Dr. John Foreyt, this book provides evidence-based discussions o...
A Clinical Guide for Management of Overweight and Obese Children and Adults
While unhealthy diet and sedentary behaviors are second only to smoking as the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S., less than 45 percent of adult and pediatric obese patients received any prior advice from a physician to lose weight. The low rate of identification and treatment of obesity by physicians can often be attributed to lack of
Comprehensive Cardiovascular Medicine in the Primary Care Setting
The thoroughly updated second edition of this key textbook provides an authoritative discussion of cardiovascular disease for the practicing primary care clinician. It examines a variety of disease states with emphasis on risk factors, risk estimation, and established cardiac disease. The book also explores the co-morbid conditions that surround cardiovascular disease. It includes key points, algorithms, case studies, recommendations on evidence-based practice, and summary boxes. A key resource for the busy practitioner, the Second Edition of Comprehensive Cardiovascular Medicine in the Primary Care Setting is designed to give residents, fellows, and primary care physicians the skills to confidently perform assessments, initiate and maintain efficacious therapy, and know when a referral to a cardiologist is advisable.
