Preface

Due to the increasing prevalence of eating disorders and obesity, weight management has become a crucial skill in current medical and psychotherapeutic practice. It requires knowledge of physical, psychological and social factors that influence body weight, clinical experience and the courage to try new therapeutic approaches such as novel diets and innovative psychological therapies, medications, anti-obesity devices or music therapy. This book covers the underpinnings and the pathophysiology of weight-related disorders, their far-reaching consequences and evidence-based as well as experimental therapies.

With great pleasure I have received in-depth, informative and exciting contributions from different disciplines by authors from Germany, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Perú, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Thus, I would like to thank all authors for their wonderful chapters and their hard work.

I would also like to thank IntechOpen and specifically Ms. Sandra Maljavac for making this scientific book project possible.

**II**

**Chapter 9 145**

Eating Disorders - A Therapeutic Challenge **159**

**Chapter 10 161**

**Chapter 11 179**

**Chapter 12 195**

**Chapter 13 207**

Prevention and Treatment of Obesity - Difficulties and Novel Ideas **237**

**Chapter 14 239**

**Chapter 15 255**

**Chapter 16 269**

**Chapter 17 299**

**Chapter 18 309**

Beneficial Effects of Proanthocyanidins on Intestinal Permeability

*by Carlos González-Quilen, Esther Rodríguez-Gallego, Raúl Beltrán-Debón, Montserrat Pinent, Anna Ardévol, Maria Teresa Blay and Ximena Terra*

Effect of Foot Morphology and Anthropometry on Bipedal Postural Balance

Discretion or Disorder? The Impact of Weight Management Issues on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Disordered Eating and Clinical

A Software-Assisted Qualitative Study on the Use of Music in People

*by Briana Applewhite, Aishwarya Krishna Priya, Valentina Cardi* 

Evidence-Based and Novel Psychological Therapies for People

*by Anna Carr, Kate Tchanturia, Emmanuelle Dufour, Mary Cowan* 

*by Charmode Sundip Hemant*

Warming in Anorexia Nervosa: A Review *by Emilio Gutiérrez and Olaia Carrera*

**Section 3**

Eating Disorders *by Abigail H. Natenshon*

with Anorexia Nervosa

*and Hubertus Himmerich*

with Anorexia Nervosa

*and Hubertus Himmerich*

Anti-Obesity Medical Devices *by Hassan M. Heshmati*

*by Hassan M. Heshmati*

Artificial Sweeteners *by Kanagamani Krishnasamy*

Gut Microbiome in Obesity Management

and Its Relationship with Inflammation

Long-Term Weight Loss Maintenance

*by Martin Fischer, Nadine Oberänder and Arved Weimann*

**Section 4**

**Hubertus Himmerich** Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College London, London, UK

**1**

Section 1

Etiological and Diagnostic

Aspects of Weight-Related

Disorders
