Khalid Amjad Kiyani, Syed Irfan Ahmed, Muhammad Tariq Nadeem, Aneeza Jalil.
The management of Obesity.
J Rawal Med Coll Jan ;9(1):41-50.

It is said that inside every obese person there is a thin person trying to get out. Obesity is very difficult to treat, because the primary emphasis must be on active patient self-control rather than on passive drug therapy. The three approaches to weight control are diet, exercise, and drugs. The management of weight excess depends on the clinical assessment of the individual and includes the co-morbid risk factors such as hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Obesity probably has multiple etiologies, so there may be different sub-populations of obese individuals and thus different types of effective treatments. These include self monitoring using a food diary, a need to assess present exercise level, separation of eating from other activities and recognition that eating may be related to stress. This is a review article.

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