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1. Introduction and overview
2. Epidemiology: definition, classification
and identification
3. Causes of obesity
4. The Autocrine, Paracrine and Endocrine Functions
of Adipose Tissue
5. Obesity - a disease in its own right
6. Beneficial effects of modest weight loss
7. Management in clinical practice - a patient
orientated approach
8. Drug treatment in the management of obesity
9. Surgery in the management of obesity
10. The economic consequences of obesity
11. Prevention of obesity
12. Childhood obesity
Appendix 1: Healthy eating
Appendix 2: Characteristics of successful weight
management programmes
Appendix 3: Facts of fat
Appendix 4: Growth charts
Appendix 5: The Milan Declaration
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