Decoding obesity: The lifestyle disease

you thought obesity is a mere lifestyle disorder, think again. The fact that there is a billion dollar industry thriving globally to prevent excessive weight-gain and obesity, says a lot, does it not? A few years ago, obesity was officially recognised and classified as a multifactorial disease, for the first time. It is not a disease to be taken lightly, rather, it needs to be managed medically with appropriate treatment and expert supervision. One needs to keep in mind that merely losing weight and actually managing obesity are two completely different things altogether.
We spoke to obesity surgeon Dr Sanjay Borude, endocrinologist and obesity consultant Dr Deepak Chaturvedi and bariatric, metabolic surgeon Dr Ramen Goel, for busting myths about this lifestyle disease...