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Thursday, February 16, 2012

New Approaches in Obesity Treatment Niet, J.E. de 2010-12-14 Doctoral Thesis Medical Psychology & Psychotherapy


Obesity has become a global epidemic among all age groups. A number of countries have even experienced a notable shift from under- to over nutrition in youngsters or a double burden of both malnutrition and obesity. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines overweight and obesity as “abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health”. Worldwide, the impairment of health includes a number of diseases related to obesity causing death in at least 2.6 million people each year. The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity is alarming and increasing at a faster rate than before. Globally, in 2005 approximately 1.6 billion individuals of the world population aged 15 years and older were overweight and at least 400 million adults were obese. By 2015, the WHO expects approximately 2.3 billion adults to be overweight and more than 700 million to be obese. By 2030, the global burden of obesity is projected to be a total of 3.3 billion obese adults.

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