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Although obesity has been recognized for millennia as a clinical syndrome, it is only since the 1980s that there has been an explosion of cases worldwide linked to dramatic industrial developments. The burden for physicians is overwhelming, and overweight and obesity per se now constitutes a grave economic and medical burden. This is why radical approaches are now needed to reduce the clinical consequences.