Obesity is a heavy accumulation of fat in the body's fat cells to such a serious degree that it rapidly increases the risk of obesity-associated diseases and mortality.

Obesity can be hereditary; hence some people are at increased risk. However, obesity only develops from overeating, irregular meals and lack of daily physical activity.

Most importantly, being overweight and obese may cause several psychological problems like a feeling of inferiority, often caused by discrimination. Furthermore, many physical problems are related to obesity, like difficulties in breathing, personal hygiene, pain in the knees and back and skin problems.

Obesity is a disease that you cannot expect to be cured of or be under clinical control within a few weeks or months. Thus, short-term treatment with medicines should be rare.

Medications for obesity treatment contribute to weight loss and increase the number of patients who achieve a weight loss of more than 5 or 10kg. After the weight loss has been completed, the medicine helps prevent the patient from regaining the weight.

Many people think that when a disease is hereditary, it is inevitable that you will suffer from the condition but this is not true.