title: Obesity in primary care: prevention, management and the paradox.
abstract: Government and societal efforts to combat obesity are aimed at prevention, although there is a generation for whom excess weight is the rule rather than the exception. Although measures to prevent a worsening of the current epidemic are important, management of obesity must also be prioritised. Obesity management is beset with problems ranging from attitudinal to clinical and pharmacological, and the individualisation of therapy.
authors.affiliation: GP Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, Centre for Obesity research, Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Bedfordshire, UK. dwhaslam@aol.com.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Haslam
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control*; D057285:Precision Medicine; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011322:Primary Prevention; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom