Foreword to Part Two
People with obesity and overweight are common in Australia and we often delay talking to our patients about their weight issues. Given this, the impact obesity has on individuals and their health, and now the issues with COVID-19, it is important that we remember how we can help.
In Part 2 of this obesity awareness collection, we reconsider the additional therapeutic approaches that we can employ to help people with obesity. These approaches include very low energy diets, pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery.
The following articles on pharmacotherapy and surgical options for obesity have been collated from Medicine Today and its sister publication Endocrinology Today and all articles have been significantly updated by the authors.
Now, we need to help our patients in their struggle with their excess weight, we need to ask them about what help they need and we have to be aware of the range of options in our armamentarium – and be prepared to use them – especially at this time!
Professor Caterson is the Boden Professor of Human Nutrition and Director of the Boden Collaboration, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.
