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Obesity - Strategies For The Prevention

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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)

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.

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  • Alina-Costina LUCA & Mirabela SUBOTNICU, 2014. "Obesity - Strategies For The Prevention," Management Intercultural, Romanian Foundation for Business Intelligence, Editorial Department, issue 32, pages 59-62, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cmj:interc:y:2014:i:32:p:59-62
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    Keywords

    Epidemiology; Obesity; Prevention;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development

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