Editorial: With Obesity Becoming the New Normal, What Should We Do?
Editorial: With Obesity Becoming the New Normal, What Should We Do?
Katherine Samaras1,2,3*, Henrik Tevaerai4, Michel Goldman5, Johannes le Coutre6,7 and Jeff M. P. Holly8
1Department of Endocrinology, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
2Diabetes and Metabolism, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
3St Vincent's Hospital, St Vincent's Clinical School, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia
4Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
5Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Healthcare, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
6Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
7Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland
8Professor of Clinical Science, IGFs and Metabolic Endocrinology Group, Translational Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
The Editorial on the Research Topic With Obesity Becoming the New Normal, What Should We Do?
In just a blink oft Earth's eye (approximately three decades), obesity has become a global epidemic and an urgent health crisis due to its impact on health services and the loss of human capital. It is not just a crisis for health professionals, health economists, and government officials managing finite resources and considering the economics of premature loss of life and economic productivity: it is a major societal concern that chal...
Source: Frontiers in Endocrinology - Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research
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