Its prevalence has continued to increase for years: today, 8.5 million French people are obese. However, until recently, doctors were rather helpless in the face of this disease, often having to rely on surgery when lifestyle changes proved ineffective or insufficient. But today, new drugs are rekindling hope of improving care…
“I went on a diet four or five years ago and I lost 25 kilos, I reached 78 kilos for 1.73 meters
,” says Chantal*, 25, before explaining how, remaining Singled out as
“fat”
, she regained all the kilos lost in two months.
“Weight is only a symptom of the disease obesity, and patients like certain health professionals have difficulty integrating it
,” recalls Professor Emmanuel Disse, researcher at the CarMeN laboratory (Inserm/Inrae/Université Lyon- 1) and head of the endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition department at…
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