At the beginning of May 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that Europe would have to face a obesity epidemic by 2030.
Since 1980, obesity figures have indeed doubled worldwide, in part due to our increasingly sedentary lifestyles and poor diets. If overweight and obesity are not problematic in themselves, their effects on health are significant: diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, premature death… Consequently, the WHO advises governments to take measures to limit the increase in obesity, and calls on the food industry to promote healthy diets.
At present, obesity treatments are based above all on comprehensive and personalized patient management. Bariatric surgery should only be a solution for the most severe forms associated with complications. Similarly, the French Agency for the Safety of Health Products (Afssaps) recalls that a medical treatmentshould only be considered if there is a disappointing response to measures taken on diet, physical activity and behavioral habits.
