Scaling Up Efforts to Bring Weight Down: An Update on Recommendations, Techniques, and Pharmacotherapies for Adult Weight Management

Obesity meets 3 standard defining criteria of a disease: it is associated with impairment of normal bodily function, has characteristic signs and symptoms, and results in bodily harm.¹ Accordingly, authoritative organizations, including the American Medical Association, formally recognize obesity as a disease—more specifically, a chronic, relapsing, neurobehavioral disease.^1-6

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Obesity meets 3 standard defining criteria of a disease: it is associated with impairment of normal bodily function, has characteristic signs and symptoms, and results in bodily harm.¹ Accordingly, authoritative organizations, including the American Medical Association, formally recognize obesity as a disease—more specifically, a chronic, relapsing, neurobehavioral disease.^1-6

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Obesity meets 3 standard defining criteria of a disease: it is associated with impairment of normal bodily function, has characteristic signs and symptoms, and results in bodily harm.¹ Accordingly, authoritative organizations, including the American Medical Association, formally recognize obesity as a disease—more specifically, a chronic, relapsing, neurobehavioral disease.^1-6

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