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Obesity and overweight: the importance of debunking myths

Obesity is a multicausal disease that it is consolidated against the sum of several factors, which affect individually or simultaneously and that, especially in times like this, of uncertainty, nerves, isolation and lack of routine, can be exponentially enhanced. This also is compounded by a culture that celebrates thinness as a social success and the constant pressure to adapt to it, as if it were a simple matter of will or to find the magic diet that makes it possible in the shortest time. More than ever, we must break with these myths and work for a true awareness of this problem, which already affects 6 out of 10 Argentines, according to the Ministry of Health.

Overweight and obesity arise from the interaction of a multiple genetic disorder and a clearly favorable environment that enhances an increase in intake and a reduction in energy expenditure by alarmingly decreasing spontaneous and programmed physical activity. It is important to make clear that it is a chronic disease and as such, its treatment cannot be under any point of view an impossible diet to sustain with a short duration and an end on the contrary, they require prolonged or even lifelong treatments, depending on the individual case.

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