Obesitas est gravitas valetudinis, in qua nimium adipis adeo accumulatur, ut saluti nocere, exspectationem vitae imminuere plusculumque hominum morbo afficere possit.^[3][4] Obesus putatur, cuius index molis corporei (IMC) — aestimatio quae ita fit, ut pondus hominis quadrato altitudinis eius dividatur — 30 kg/m² excedit.^[5]

Obesitas probabilitatem variorum morborum auget, praecipue morbi cordis, diabetis generis 2, obstructivae somni apneae, certorum generum cancri, et osteoarthritis.^[6] Obesitas plerumque efficitur a mixtura nimium energiae ex cibo, inopiae activitatis physicae, et procilivitatis geneticae, quamquam nonnullae causae primum a genis, confusione endocrinae, medicamentis, vel morbo mentis efficiuntur. Non multa indicia opinionem nonnullos homines obesos minime edere sed pondus capere ob metabolismum tardum sustinent; ex contrario, ob energiam quae ad conservandam massam corpoream necesse est, homines obesi maiorem energiam expendere quam homines tenues solent.^[7][8]

Diaeta minuta et exercitatio physica sunt principales obesitatis curationes. Qualitas diaetae ameliorari potest immuendo consumptione ciborum energia densorum sicut cibi adipis saccharique pleni, et amplificando consumptionem fibrae diaetariae. Medicamenta contra obesitatem recipi possunt ad minuendam appententiam vel interdicendam absorptionem adipis, una cum diaeta commoda. Si diaeta, exercitatio, et medicina non sunt efficaces, globus gastricus adiuvare, vel chirurgia bariatrica volumen stomachi et/vel longitudinem intestini imminuere potest, praematuram satiationem et reductam nutrimentorum ex cibo absorptorum facultatem inducens.^[9][10]

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Bibliographia addita

• Fumento, Michael (1997). The Fat of the Land: Our Health Crises and How Overweight Americans can Help Themselves. Novi Eboraci: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-026144-3 
• Keller, Kathleen (2008). Encyclopedia of Obesity. Thousand Oaks, Californiae: Sage Publications, Inc. ISBN 1-4129-5238-7 
• Kolata, Gina (2007). Rethinking Thin: The new science of weight loss – and the myths and realities of dieting. Picador. ISBN 0-312-42785-9 
• Kopelman, Peter G. (2005). Clinical obesity in adults and children: In Adults and Children. Blackwell Publishing. p. 493. ISBN 1-4051-1672-2 
• Levy-Navarro, Elena (2008). The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-230-60123-5 
• Pool, Robert (2001). Fat: Fighting the Obesity Epidemic. Oxoniae: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511853-7 

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Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad obesitatem spectant.

• Groupe de Réflexion sur l'Obésité et le Surpoids, apud www.gros.org (Francogallice)
• Obesitas apud www.who.int (Consociationem Mundialem Sanitatis) (Anglice)
• Obesitas apud www.nlm.nih.gov (MedLinePlus) (Anglice)
• Obesitas in Europa, apud www.cfnavarra.es (Hispanice)
• Obesitas apud Consilium Europaeum pro informatione de alimentatio, apud www.eufic.org (Francogallice)
• Societas Hispanica quae obesitatem studit, apud www.seedo.es (Hispanice)