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Health risks of weight loss / Frances M. Berg.

Title
Health risks of weight loss / Frances M. Berg.
Author
Berg, Francie M.
Publication
Hettinger, ND : Healthy Weight Journal, [1995], ©1995.

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Description
157 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
Subject
  • Diet, Reducing
  • Health Status Indicators
  • Health risk assessment
  • Reducing diets
  • Weight Loss
  • Weight loss
Note
  • "The special report was initially published in part in Health risks of obesity in 1992"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-152) and index.
Contents
I. Risks of weight loss. General treatment risks -- Starvation and fad diets -- Diet pills and drugs -- Purging, exercise -- Surgery -- Sports and athletes -- Eating disorders : physical and mental effects -- Psychological risks -- Weight cycling -- Mortality increase with weight loss -- Thinness : a cultural obsession -- Effectiveness of treatment. II. Challenges for healthy change. To treat or not to treat -- Diet industry regulation -- Challenges for wellness and wholeness.
ISBN
0918532442
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries