Menopause Answer Book or The Management of Obesity and Related Disorders

Menopause Answer Book

Author: Marsha Lynn Speller

Estrogen is a powerful female hormone that protects women from many health risks. In menopause, estrogen levels decline and its protective qualities decline as well. At the same time, a lifetime of bad habits may begin to catch up with us, and our genetic predispositions to disease begin to surface. All this leads to a plethora of symptoms, some temporary, some chronic and some life-threatening.

The Menopause Answer Book allows women to carefully assess their own symptoms and then seek out the information and treatments that will be tailored to their own specific needs:
-- Find out if you’re at risk for diseases associated with menopause
-- Develop your Menopause Action Plan
-- Assess the pros and cons of Hormone Replacement Therapy
-- Find out what tests to request from your doctor
-- Find out how to get the attention and treatment that you need
-- Learn about important lifestyle changes to make right now

Women dealing with menopause and perimenopause are bombarded with information but often have a hard time figuring out what applies to them and how to choose between conflicting advice. The Menopause Answer Book is the must-have companion to the top-selling menopause books, which are informational but don’t help women tailor their treatment.

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The Management of Obesity and Related Disorders

Author: Peter Kopelman

Management of Obesity and Related Disorders concentrates on the management, pharmacological and otherwise, of obesity and its related problems. Diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, hyperlipidemia and fibrinolytic abnormalities are all exacerbated by obesity, which is now epidemic in scale. Professor Peter Kopelman has assembled an international team of experts to discuss the problem of obesity and its related disorders. The first section of this practical guide discusses the varying management approaches of exercise, diet, behavior, pharmacology and surgery, while the second section concentrates on the management of the specific related disorders.

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Reviewer: Jeffrey Marc Zigman, MD, PhD (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
Description: This is a review of obesity, its complications and associated disorders, and its treatment.
Purpose: In his preface, the editor states that he intends this book to be used by healthcare professionals as a manual for the management of obese and overweight individuals. These objectives certainly are worthy and a handbook that presents a concise and practical approach to the management of this disorder would be a worthwhile contribution and beneficial. This book partially meets the objectives.
Audience: According to the editor, this book is directed towards "physicians in training, general practitioners and other health care professionals interested in the successful management" of obesity and overweight. I believe that all three of these categories would find this book to be readable and useful. The editor is an expert in the field of obesity and is a credible authority.
Features: This book covers the complications, comorbidities, and management of obesity and overweight. The best parts about the book are the individual chapters on management (part II):each of these management chapters provides an equal balance of background and useful, practical approaches. The chapter on behavior therapy, in particular, outlines a complicated field in an understandable and practical manner. The book falls short of its goals, however, in that a practical approach is truly only presented in part II. Part I deals with complications of obesity, namely diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension and cardiovascular disease, haemostasis abnormalities, and respiratory complications. Although these chapters provide good background on these conditions, for the most part they do not provide any "ready-for-use" practical guidelines to treat those conditions. In addition, the figures in these latter chapters are confusing whether viewed alone or in the context of the accompanying text. If this book truly were to contain practical approaches to the management of overweight and obese individuals, then practical approaches to management of the comorbidities of overweight and obesity should also have been presented. In fact, I would recommend that readers skip the first half of the book, and just read part II.
Assessment: Part II of this book is an excellent, concise, clear, and useful manual for managing obesity and overweight. Unfortunately, Part I does not provide practical approaches to management of the comorbid conditions associated with obesity and overweight.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Contributors
	Preface
1	Defining overweight and obesity	1
2	Obesity and diabetes	11
3	Obesity and hyperlipidemia	45
4	Obesity and cardiovascular disease and hypertension	65
5	Obesity and abnormalities of haemostasis	85
6	Obesity and respiratory complications	103
7	Dietary management of obesity	129
8	Behavior therapy	165
9	The physical activity approach to the treatment of overweight and obesity	179
10	Pharmacological approaches	203
11	Surgery	221
12	An Integrated approach to the management of overweight and obesity	235
	Index	247