Obesity Medicine

Commercial Determinants of Health

Obesity is a complex disease triggered by interlinking causes, from genetics to dysfunctional food systems, to social deprivation. Despite these complexities, most of the current public discourse is simplistic, centres on the ‘eat less, move more’ mantra and places the blame solely on the individual.

A core value of World Obesity Federation is that obesity prevention efforts should not just be targeted at individual actions but at wider commercial and societal determinants