Nutritionists and endocrinologists request that obesity be considered a "chronic disease"
Recently it was held in Madrid on Obesity Summit
This is the Summit where the topic to be addressed is one: the obesity.
In this edition, the first one carried out in Spain, experts valued the importance of recognizing that obesity it should not be associated only with a bad attitude linked to bad eating habits, but it must be seen, studied and treated as a chronic disease.
Pharmacological treatments against obesity?
In this way, the specialists brought up the need to strengthen pharmacological treatments in patients with this pathology. Such treatments can help you lose excess weight by 15%.
On the other hand, traditional methods, read diet and physical exercise, often help these people lose between an 5 and an 10% of weight.
In addition to putting on the table these figures that show the greater potential for weight loss drugs -in cases where it is necessary- They emphasized another advantage. We refer to the importance of the sustainability in the time of the results.
They agreed that this type of treatment (always added to healthy habits), are an alternative for patients who by other means do not achieve the expected results.
The importance of recognizing obesity as a chronic disease
During this summit devoted to obesity, nutritionists and endocrinologists They recalled that health institutions of great prestige worldwide, already recognize obesity in this way. For example, they refer to the World Health Organization and American Medical Association,
The specialists who ask to speak of "chronic disease", insist on the need to address this pathology from a medical point of view.
And is that society in general is often associate overweight with "a person who does not take care of himself". In this way, 100% of the responsibility to the patient is blamed, without taking into account that there are multiple factors that can affect the appearance of this pathology, apart from bad habits.
They insist that obesity No. It must be considered an "attitude." They insist that behind her, there is a series of biological, hormonal mechanisms, among others, that must be taken into account and that not necessarily a person is "obese" for having bad habits or "neglect"
Obesity in Canary Islands, a serious issue
Obesity figures in Canary Islands are not encouraging. We are one of the places in Europe with the highest morbid obesity.
We know that a person in Canary Islands have seven times more options to die of diabetes, that a person in Madrid (obesity is the first cause of the development of type 2 diabetes, among other serious consequences of this pathology).
Furthermore, alarming know that the new generations do not escape from this reality. As we told you recently in our blog, "44,2% of Canarian children suffer from overweight".
We will continue to pay attention to the development of this petition by nutritionists and endocrinologists about the need to tackle obesity from a new point of view (and we will tell you).
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