Addressing the Global Health Challenge of Obesity

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Overweight and Obesity

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Addressing the Global Health Challenge of Obesity

Obesity is an independent, multi-factorial, chronic, relapsing disease that requires serious treatment from the perspective of evidence-based medicine, under the supervision of a physician. Obesity in recent years has become the most acute medical and social problem. Given that the number of obese people in the world is increasing by about 1 percent per year, the near-term outlook is not optimistic. In this connection, the national program for battling obesity and one of its essential elements may be national clinical guidelines for the prevention, diagnosing, and treatment of obesity. Therefore,…