title: [Obesity and free inquiry].
abstract: The W.H.O. identifies obesity as one of the ten leading health risk factors. Obesity is a worldwide non-infectious pandemic with dramatic consequences, and its usual treatment comes generally to a failure. One may wonder if our therapeutic proposal is adequate, instead of speaking about the lack of willpower of our patients. The explanation of weight gain should not be reduced to a caloric balance. Obese people may have other physiological characteristics than lean ones. Examples are quoted.
authors.affiliation: Clinique Interdisciplinaire du Traitement de I'Obésité et Département de Médecine Interne, C.H.U. Brugmann, Bruxelles.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kutnowski
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology*