Obesity represents a growing challenge for the health care system due to the increasing Prevalence of obesity and the associated Accompanying and secondary diseases. The direct and indirect costs that have arisen are high and will increase still further unless effective action is taken to prevent overweight and obesity.
The causes of overweight are rarely due to diseases that are predominantly endocrinal. Rather they are due to an excess supply of food and its increased consumption and also to increasingly less exercise resulting in a positive energy balance (i.e. the amount of calories consumed as food exceeds the energy which is used for exercise and other metabolic processes in the body), which over a period of time puts the metabolic balance at risk and pushes up the so-called Set Point .
Accompanying and secondary diseases