Nutrition and Food sciences

Track 09: Obesity and Weight Management

Obesity is a health ailment in which accumulation excess body fat has negative impact on health. Sources of Obesity range from individual, socioeconomic to environmental causes and include diet, physical activity, urbanization, genetic susceptibility, mental disorders, and endocrine disorders.

Weight management raises to the methods and core physiological processes that contribute to a person's capability to reach and maintain a certain weight. Proper weight management strategies should frequently focus on achieving healthy weights through slow and steady weight loss, monitored by maintenance of a perfect body weight over time. Increasing obesity rates are a main concern everywhere the world understanding the basic science of weight management and some of the strategies for attaining and maintaining a healthy weight stands very important to a person's overall health since obesity is a risk factor for many chronic diseases, like Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

• Environmental factors
• Psychological factors
• Genetic and Environmental factors
• Medical conditions