OBESITY - STRATEGIES FOR THE PREVENTION

• Main Authors: Alina-Costina LUCA, Mirabela SUBOTNICU
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Romanian Foundation for Business Intelligence 2014-12-01
• Series: Management Intercultural
• Subjects: epidemiology; obesity; prevention
• Online Access: https://seaopenresearch.eu/Journals/articles/MI_32_8.pdf

The last decades there has been characterizes by a worrying rise in obesity among both adults and in children's services. Obesity is considered disease XXI century. Obesity includes a medical field which accumulates a major issue and objective public health in developed countries, a vital prognosis health problem in medical practice and, not least, an aesthetic problem, psychosocial implications. The word comes from the Latin obese, "obesus" = fat, corpulent. Since ancient times, 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates noticed danger overweight "corpulence is not only a disease itself, but is a risk factor." Subsequently, the Indian surgeon Sushruta (VI century BC) noted connection between obesity and heart disease. In Europe in medieval and Renaissance, obesity was considered a sign of wealth and prosperity among senior officials.