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Jenny Radcliffe - Cut Down to Size: Achieving success with weight loss surgery - 9780415683777 - V9780415683777
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Cut Down to Size: Achieving success with weight loss surgery

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Description for Cut Down to Size: Achieving success with weight loss surgery Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MMZF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.

Cut Down to Size covers everything you need to know about bariatric surgery, from referral through to the challenges you may face after surgery. Most people who seek weight loss surgery have struggled for many years to control their eating, and have experienced increasing health limitations, self-consciousness and discrimination. People see weight loss surgery as their last chance for a better, more normal life. While hopeful fantasies about an alternative future make it hard to contemplate the risk of failure, some patients experience considerable emotional or physical problems.

This book offers insight into the realities of living with weight loss ... Read more

Cut Down to Size is the first book to focus on the psychological and social aspects of weight loss surgery and will be of interest to health professionals as well as anyone contemplating weight loss surgery. By sharing the experiences of other bariatric patients, the reader can appreciate the nature of life after surgery and make a judgement about their capacity to cope with these demands.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415683777
SKU
V9780415683777
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About Jenny Radcliffe
Jenny Radcliffe is a Consultant Clinical Health Psychologist. Since completing her training at University College London she has specialised in working with people with physical health problems. For the past eight years her primary interest has been in the psychological impact of obesity and weight loss surgery.

Reviews for Cut Down to Size: Achieving success with weight loss surgery
'Indispensible! A comprehensive key text providing remarkable insight and education for both the bariatric practioner and patient alike.' – Scott Lonnee, Bariatric Dietitian, St Georges Hospital NHS Trust. 'This book has managed to put the option of surgery for weight loss into a readable and useful format for the individual. It is not so much a textbook, but ... Read more

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