Abstract

ETHICAL DILEMMAS PLUS PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS IN OBESITY

Chaitan Jaunky, Dr Mary Mathew, Dr Navin Patil*, Dr Sushil Kiran, George Varghese, Teresa Varghese and Anushree Puttur

Abstract

With the advent of globalization, technology, mankind has encountered a problem called Obesity. At the beginning, it was unnoticed as man was in pursuit of bigger dreams and higher pursuits but obesity soon became an Epidemic and as we speak of today, it has become a Pandemic with close to 3 million people dying each year as a result of being overweight/ obese[1] and if not managed, it will have a serious repercussion at the individual health and on the economy of the country. Statistics are alarming and forecast about obesity indicates that obesity has become a disease.

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