Novel Strategies Targeting Obesity and Metabolic Diseases, Volume II

Download or read book Novel Strategies Targeting Obesity and Metabolic Diseases, Volume II written by Xinran Ma and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Topic is part of the Novel Strategies Targeting Obesity and Metabolic Diseases series (Volume I). The 21st century features excessive food availability and prevalent sedentary lifestyle. Unsurprisingly, obesity has become one of the most serious problems threatening public health with a staggering morbidity/mortality rate. Obesity is the leading risk factor for a series of metabolic diseases, i.e. diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, non-alcoholic hepatic steatosis, osteoporosis and certain types of cancer. Although, theoretically, body weight could be easily controlled by the balance of food intake and caloric burning, the rapid and stressful pace of modern society has made the healthy life style of eating less and exercising more hard to achieve its popularity. Pharmacotherapeutic solutions targeting appetite or energy expenditure are limited and often with undesired and sometimes dangerous side effects. The problem becomes even more complicated when genetic susceptibility for obesity is taken into account. In result, till now, the long and intense battle for obesity-intervention still wages and we are in urgent need for effective weight-losing strategies.