title: Obesity: how can it be controlled?
abstract: Obesity is a complex condition. In humans, it depends on a variety of social, cultural and behavioural factors acting on the physiological mechanisms that dictate food intake and energy expenditure. In the past decade, details of these mechanisms and of the genes that control them have started to unfold. Are we, however, at risk of pursuing the more molecular aspects of this twentieth-century epidemic while allowing the stigma of obesity to prevent us from implementing radical treatment programmes that could prevent many premature deaths in the short term?
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Senior
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D020738:Leptin; D051379:Mice; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D020738:Leptin; D011506:Proteins