Obesity as a Chronic Disease

Egger, G., & Dixon, J. (2009). Obesity and chronic disease: always offender or often just accomplice?. The British journal of nutrition, 102(8), 1238–1242. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114509371676

Tucker, S., Bramante, C., Conroy, M., Fitch, A., Gilden, A., Wittleder, S., & Jay, M. (2021). The Most Undertreated Chronic Disease: Addressing Obesity in Primary Care Settings. Current obesity reports, 10(3), 396–408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13679-021-00444-y

Fonvig, C. E., Kloppenborg, J. T., Nielsen, T., Vinding, R., Madsen, J., Roikjer, B. H., & Holm, J. C. (2021). Ugeskrift for laeger, 183(31), V01210082.

Bray, G. A., Kim, K. K., Wilding, J., & World Obesity Federation (2017). Obesity: a chronic relapsing progressive disease process. A position statement of the World Obesity Federation. Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 18(7), 715–723. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12551

A peer-reviewed review of the current evidence of approaches to obesity management, highlighting the minimal impact of many approachs, as well as citing imprvements in health at 5-10% of weight loss. Laddu, D., Dow, C., Hingle, M., Thomson, C., & Going, S. (2011). A review of evidence-based strategies to treat obesity in adults. Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 26(5), 512–525. https://doi.org/10.1177/0884533611418335

An opinion piece published in the June 2021 issues of the BC Medical journal providing a definition of chronic disease, making an argument for why obesity should be labelled a chronic disease, and discussing how this may help reduce the stigma and bias which is both common in this population, and can casue harm (Hale & Manjoo. 2021). The authors give a ‘call to action’ to BC to follow suit with other Canadian provinces in officially recognizing Obesity as a chronic disease. Hale, I., & Manjoo, P. (2021). Obesity as chronic disease. BCMJ, 63(5), 219. https://bcmj.org/cohp/obesity-chronic-disease

Sharma, A. [Obesity Canada]. (2019, January 25). Obesity as a chronic disease Dr Arya Sharma [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruWsvfP2flQ

(2019, October 22). Obesity. Public Health Ontario. Retrieved July 3, 2022, from https://www.publichealthontario.ca/en/diseases-and-conditions/chronic-diseases-and-conditions/obesity