Hazardous Waist - Tackling Male Weight Problems

Informationen zum Autor White, Alan; Pettifer, Maggie Zusammenfassung This book includes a foreword by Peter Baker, Chief Executive, The Men's Health Forum Inhaltsverzeichnis The challenge of male weight problems. The research base for male obesity: what do we know? The causes of male obesity and associated health problems. Male obesity: policy and context. Using body image to help men manage weight problems. Men! obesity and the media. Men! masculinities and health. Tackling male weight problems. Managing male obesity in primary care. Working with men in groups - experience from a weight management programme in Scotland. Weight management in men - community pharmacy approaches. Commercial slimming groups in the management of weight problems in men. Tackling weight problems in men in the workplace. Weight problems in boys and young men. Fit for inclusion. Working with overweight and obese men with a disability. Promoting exercise to men. Counselling the man beyond the weight problem. Communicating the risks of obesity to South Asian men. Weight management in men with mental health problems. Working with men via the internet. Innovation in obesity services for men. The Australian experience.

Product details

• Authors: Maggie Pettifer, Pettifer Maggie, Alan White, Alan (Leeds Beckett University) Pettifer White, Alan Pettifer White, White Alan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2007
• EAN: 9781846191039
• ISBN: 978-1-84619-103-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Medical professions; MEDICAL / Nutrition, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, Dietetics & nutrition, Eating disorders & therapy, Eating disorders and therapy, Dietetics and nutrition