Obesity care has seen considerable improvements in the past years. Pharmacotherapy and bariatric-metabolic surgery can now offer several treatment options that are secure and efficient. However, as it often happens when medical progress evolves fast, good practice recommendations and treatments with proven efficacy may be questioned in favor of ‘miracle treatments’, that promise a lot, but often yield little.
In this context, the SMOB board wants to share some important thoughts on this WORLD OBESITY DAY.