Obesity Awareness Week 10th - 16th January 2025

The Government’s policy paper on obesity published in July 2020 suggested that 63% of adults in the UK are above a healthy weight, with half of those being classed as obese.  Obesity Awareness Week takes place every January to highlight the issues surrounding obesity and the associated health problems.

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS   

• The ASMBS textbook of bariatric surgery; Nguyen, N; Morton, John M; et al; 2020 (Springer); 2^nd edition.

• Ketogenic diet therapies for epilepsy and other conditions; Kossoff, Eric; Turner, Zahava; et al; 2021 (Springer); 7^th edition.

• Metabolism and nutrition; Vanbergen, Olivia; Wintle, Gareth; Dominczak, Marek H, 2019 (Elsevier); 5^th edition.

• Obesity and diabetes: new surgical and nonsurgical approaches; Faintuch, Joel; Faintuch, Salomào; 2015 (Springer).

• Exercise for special populations; Williamson, Peggie; 2019 (Wolters Kluwer); 2^nd edition.

• ABC of obesity; Sattar, Naveed; Lean, Mike; 2007 (Blackwell Publishing).

• The Heavy Burden of Obesity; Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development; 2019 (OECD) – [only available as an OpenAccess e-book]

• The childhood obesity epidemic: why are our children obese-- and what can we do about it?; Vash, Peter; 2015 (CRC Press) – [only available online as a Keele or NHS e-book]

• Multidisciplinary approach to obesity; from assessment to treatment; Lenzi, Andrea; Migliaccio, Silvia; et al; 2015 (Springer) – [only available online as a Keele or NHS e-book]

• Downsizing: how I lost 8 stone, reversed my diabetes and regained my health; Watson, Tom; 2020 (Kyle Books) – [part of our Patient Voices Collection]

JOURNALS  

• Obesity Pillars (Online); Obesity Medicine Association; (Elsevier) – [available as an OpenAccess e-journal from 2022 onwards]

• International journal of obesity; International Association for the Study of Obesity; (Nature Pub. Group) – [only available as a Keele e-journal from 1997 onwards, and NHS e-journal 1997 - 2004]

• Obesity science & practice; World Obesity Federation, Obesity Society (Silver Spring, Md.); (John Wiley & Sons Inc) – [available as an Open-Access e-journal from 2015 onwards]

• Child and adolescent obesity (Abingdon, England); (Taylor & Francis) – [available as an OpenAccess e-journal from 2018 onwards]

• Journal of obesity (online); (Wiley) – [available as an OpenAccess e-journal from 2010 onwards]

• Obesity facts (online); (Karger) – [available as an OpenAccess e-journal from 2008 onwards]

• Journal of metabolic and bariatric surgery; Taehan Piman Taesa Oekwa Hakhoe, issuing body – [available as an OpenAccess e-journal from 2016 onwards]

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT logins to view e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

• “Perspective: Do Scientists Become Part of the Obesity Problem”?; Müller, Manfred J; Bosy-Westphal, Anja; Wells, Jonathan C.K; Obesity facts, 2024-08, Vol.17 (4), p.325-328; DOI: 10.1159/000539136

• “The complexity of obesity-related health problems after bariatric surgery: The patient perspective”; Konings, G; Drukker, M; et al; Obesity Pillars (Online), 2023-09, Vol.7, p.100082, Article 100082; DOI: 10.1016/j.obpill.2023.100082

• “Association between children living with obesity and Mental Health problems: a data analysis of the Welsh Health Survey, UK”; Beynon, Claire; BMC public health, 2023-02, Vol.23 (1), p.383-383, Article 383; DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15293-8

• “Obesity as a multidimensional problem in the health care system - literature review”; Grzybowski, Jakub; Walczak, Patrycja; et al; Quality in Sport, 2023-04, Vol.11 (1), p.89-97; DOI: 10.12775/QS.2023.11.01.007

• “Food intake and eating behaviour during a real‐life Snack Scenario in childhood obesity—An experiment using a hidden camera”; Mack, Isabelle; Godwin, Jessica; Klos, Bea; et al; European eating disorders review, 2025-01, Vol.33 (1), p.67-79; DOI: 10.1002/erv.3130

• “Assessment of vitamin D status in obese and non-obese patients: A case-control study”; Derbel, Salma; Zarraa, Lamiae; et al; Diabetes epidemiology and management, 2025-01, Vol.17, p.100237, Article 100237; DOI: 10.1016/j.deman.2024.100237

• “Ten‐year progression of obesity‐related complications in a population with overweight and obesity in the UK: A retrospective open cohort study”; Pearson‐Stuttard, Jonathan; Holloway, et al; Diabetes, obesity & metabolism, 2024-11, Vol.26 (11), p.5056-5064; DOI: 10.1111/dom.15836

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available online to both Keele & NHS users.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE  

• NHS website:
• Obesity - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/obesity/
• NHS Better Health - https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/lose-weight/

• Charities / Further information:
• Obesity UK - https://www.obesityuk.org.uk/
• Obesity Health Alliance - https://obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/

• Clinical Key – Patient Education Leaflets [Available to UHNM only with OpenAthens log-in]:
• Obesity, Adult - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_6ee28c97-824b-4c5b-926a-f3bd8d48cbb9
• Obesity, Paediatric - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_aa5a57cd-faec-4ef0-b838-47d54e817ecb
• Obesity – Surgical Treatment for Obesity - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_AAFP_surgical-treatment-for-obesity_en

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians. For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/.