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AMZALLAG, William. De perder peso, al control del peso. Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 2000, vol.19, n.2, pp.98-115. ISSN 0864-0300.

Obesity is one of the greatest problems of public health at present. Its origin is complex and multifactorial. In the present paper, those aspectes related to the importance of obesity as a health problem, its physiopathology, as well as its conditioning factors are exhaustively reviewed. The failures and successes of different diet therapies used in the treatment of this disease, the beneficial effects of very low calory diets and ,specially, the Cambridge diet are approached not only as regards the reduction of body weight, but also the improvement of clinical pictures of other diseases connected with obesity, such as hypertension, type II diabetes mellitus and dislipidaemias, and the significant reduction in the doses of drugs used for its control

Palabras clave : OBESITY [diet therapy]; DIET, REDUCTION [methods]; WEIGHT LOSS.

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