Books of interest outside of Access Medicine. Check Roger to see what we might have on any topic.
Reminder: search for electronic books -- For this case, try, counseling patients, and then modify it for "Net".
Motivational Interviewing, Third Edition by 
Lipid Management by 
Nutritional and Metabolic Bases of Cardiovascular Disease by 
Therapeutic lipidology by Find more info on lipid management and associated disorders
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For your viewing pleasure ...
Dr. Kallenberg highly recommends viewing these for a better understanding of the impact of dietary changes.
As you start off this case I think many of the questions from this first round can be answered in textbooks, background resources and the Point of Care tools. As the case develops, check back for more resources.
Resources for this case include:
Textbook Suggestions
Resources for Teen BMI or Weight Loss
Quick Tips for Internet Searches
Organizations & Apps to Get Kids Moving & Eating Better
For your viewing pleasure ... A couple of videos on diets and Asian American Diabetes guidelines (side bar)
Tips that Work in Most Search Engines
If looking for some information about teen obesity what is the best term to use - pediatric obesity or teen obesity? What about adolescent obesity? Which one is the best? How about all of them - skip the multiple searches and round up all of them into one string, such as:
adolescent OR pediatric OR teen AND obesity
This is such a broad topic that you might lose some of the really key resources for all the other web pages out there. Cut to the chase by limiting your results to organizations or governmental agencies. From prevention to intervention activities to physician resources or great patient resources, most of it will start with either an org or gov, so try limiting to them first. Add one of the following to the end of the previous search string:
site:org
site:gov
If there is a key organization that should cover the topic, try your internet search with the organizations name. For example, what if you needed some thoughts on social media plans for children or teenagers. Is there a peds organization that might have some advice? You might think about the American Academy of Pediatrics and include them in your search. For example, try a search like
media plan AND american academy of pediatrics
Obesity is such a huge issue that there are many (lots!) organizations and governmental departments (see below) that dedicate a great deal of effort to preventing obesity and its comorbidities. Perhaps the most well know one is the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). They have a big prevention effort (among other things, Healthy People 2010 & 2020). Find it all with a simple search like adding the following to the first search string about teens & obesity:
site:cdc.gov
So many organizations -- individual patient oriented (including local resources) to research related to national organization or even government organizations -- how to pick? Don't forget the tips above to help identify info from specific organizations (site:...), and here are a few suggestions organizations to start with.
More on Guidelines
Sometimes, PubMed is the place to go to look for practice guidelines - especially if you are unsure of which organizations might have published some. If you have been following some of the tips, you know that there are filters for publication types with one being Practice Guidelines.
Learning More about Apps
Is there a good app for that? One of the more reliable review sites for apps is iMedicalApps and it often comes from a medical point of view.
