A comprehensive guide on obesity and weight management by Prof. Seyed Moayed Alavian, covering causes, prevention, and treatments.
Obesity and Thinness: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment
Two conditions at opposite ends of the same scale, and both clinically consequential. Prof. Seyed Moayed Alavian examines obesity and underweight together — their definitions and prevalence, the genetic, hormonal, behavioural, and psychological causes behind them, and the treatment options that evidence supports.
Publisher
Salamat Pooyan Kowsar Publications
Publication year
2025
Print length
178 pages
Language
Persian
ISBN
978-622-87808-4-9
Sponsored by
Salamat Pooyan
Audience
Patients, clinicians, and public health practitioners
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About this book
Obesity and thinness are contrasting conditions that are too often discussed separately. This book treats them together, setting out their definitions, global prevalence, and health impacts, then examining the causes behind each — genetic predisposition, hormonal imbalance, lifestyle, and psychological factors.
It describes the health consequences of both: cardiovascular complications, metabolic disorders, immune deficiency, and effects on mental health. On the practical side, it covers prevention through eating patterns, physical activity, and public health policy, and reviews treatment across lifestyle modification, medication, surgery, and psychological therapy.
A comparative section analyses risk factors shared by both conditions alongside the causes unique to each, and the book closes with integrated approaches to weight management, case studies, and where research and personalised medicine are heading.
What the book covers
Definitions and prevalence
How obesity and underweight are defined clinically, and how common each is globally.
Causes
Genetics, hormones, lifestyle, and psychological factors — and how they interact.
Health consequences
Cardiovascular and metabolic complications, immune effects, and mental health.
Prevention
Eating patterns, physical activity, and the public health policies that shape both.
Treatment options
Lifestyle modification, pharmacological treatment, surgery, and psychological therapy.
Looking ahead
Case studies, integrated weight management, and the direction of personalised medicine.
Note. This book is health education, not individual medical advice. Weight — in either direction — is best addressed with a clinician who knows your history; medication and surgical options in particular require medical supervision. Copyright: published freely for personal, non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 International License.