Category: Medical Conditions

Obesity can be a major risk factor for a number of noncommunicable yet serious and potentially debilitating health conditions, such as: Obesity can affect the body in a variety of different ways, and it is different for each unique person. Numerous studies have been conducted to review the direct and indirect impacts of obesity on…

The World Obesity Federation asserts that obesity is a “chronic, relapsing disease.” This is an important and controversial distinction, because treatment of obesity as a chronic disease is very different from the treatment of obesity as the result of personal choice or lack of willpower.  This categorization as a chronic disease would remove the stigma…