Weight or Shape
Finding Your Way to Diet And Exercise
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Beschreibung
The book critically questions the fact that many diets fail to achieve the desired result of losing weight. The author explores the interrelationships between diet and living conditions, genetic, biological and psychological dispositions and points out solutions based on an individual decision. A special emphasis is placed on the topic of movement.
- Critical examination of the diet craze
- riticizing the mediation of failures and guilt feelings
- A plea for the individual decision as to what the effective steps can be
- A plea for feeling good, regardless of one’s weight
Autor*in
Ursula Werneke
Dr Ursula Werneke is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Professor in Psychiatry at Sunderby Hospital Luelå and Umeå University in Northern Sweden right beneath the Arctic Circle.
She earned her baseline medical degree in Düsseldorf, Germany, and obtained thereafter a research fellowship for studies on diabetes with the University of La Plata, Argentina. She went on to study Health Services Management at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and then assisted Germany in developing and implementing their national breast cancer screening programme.
She then returned to London to train psychiatry and liaison psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London, UK, after which she was Consultant Psychiatrist at East London and Honorary Consultant at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital before she took up her present position in Sweden. Dr Werneke's main interests are lifestyle, nutrition, clinical pharmacology and complementary medicine, and her work in these areas has gained broad international attention. Dr Werneke is a biographee of Marquis Who’s Who in the World.
Themen in »Weight or Shape«
Obesity weight orientation nutrition Body shape, exercise diet psychology unterstand lose weight lifestyle medicine wellbeing nutritional science obesity feeling of failure