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The Obesity Medicine Association's Definition of Obesity
Medical
Interventions
Behavioral
Modification
Physical
Activity
Nutrition
Therapy
"Obesity is defined as a chronic, progressive, relapsing, and
treatable multi-factorial, neurobehavioral disease, wherein an
increase in body fat promotes adipose tissue dysfunction and
abnormal fat mass physical forces, resulting in adverse metabolic,
biomechanical, and psychosocial health consequences."
Data Collection
Patient-Centered
Communication
Evaluation and
Assessment
Management Plan and
Motivational Interviewing
Obesity as a
Chronic Disease
