OBESITY - STRATEGIES FOR THE PREVENTION

Alina-Costina Luca and Mirabela Subotnicu
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Alina-Costina Luca: Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie “Gr.T.Popa” Iasi
Mirabela Subotnicu: Spitalul Clinic de Urgenţe pentru Copii “Sf. Maria”, Iaşi

Management Intercultural, 2014, issue 32, 59-62

Abstract: The last decades there has been characterizes by a worrying rise in obesity among both adults and in children's services. Obesity is considered disease XXI century. Obesity includes a medical field which accumulates a major issue and objective public health in developed countries, a vital prognosis health problem in medical practice and, not least, an aesthetic problem, psychosocial implications. The word comes from the Latin obese, "obesus" = fat, corpulent. Since ancient times, 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates noticed danger overweight "corpulence is not only a disease itself, but is a risk factor." Subsequently, the Indian surgeon Sushruta (VI century BC) noted connection between obesity and heart disease. In Europe in medieval and Renaissance, obesity was considered a sign of wealth and prosperity among senior officials.

Keywords: Epidemiology; Obesity; Prevention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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