Weight Management

Weight Management

Author: Hubertus Himmerich

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-09-09

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1839625422

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Weight management is a multi- and cross-disciplinary challenge. This book covers many etiological and diagnostic aspects of weight-related disorders and their treatment. This book explains how body weight influences and is influenced by the brain, hormones and immune system, diet, physical activity, posture and gait, and the social environment. This book also elucidates the health consequences of significantly low or pathologically increased body weight. Furthermore, ideas on how to influence and manage body weight including anti-obesity medical devices, diet counselling, artificial sweeteners, prebiotics and probiotics, proanthocyanidins, bariatric surgery, microbiota transplantation, warming, physical exercise, music and psychological therapy are discussed.


A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences for 1865/6-1873/4. Edited by H. Power [And Others] for the New Sydenham Society

A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences for 1865/6-1873/4. Edited by H. Power [And Others] for the New Sydenham Society

Author: New Sydenham Society

Publisher: Arkose Press

Published: 2015-11-06

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9781346160252

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Wine

Wine

Author: Merton Sandler

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2002-12-19

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 0203361385

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Interest in wine science has grown enormously over the last two decades as the health benefits of moderate wine consumption have become firmly established in preventing heart disease, stroke, cancer and dementia. The growth of molecular biology has allowed proper investigation of grapevine identity and lineage and led to improvements in the winemak


The Colfax Massacre

The Colfax Massacre

Author: LeeAnna Keith

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0195393082

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Drawing on a large body of documents, including eyewitness accounts and evidence from the site itself, Keith explores the racial tensions that led to the Colfax massacre - during which surrendering blacks were mercilessly slaughtered - and the reverberations this message of terror sent throughout the South.