The pathogenesis of obesity.

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Obesity is an extremely challenging medical condition because it is a multifactorial disease that lies at the interface between the biology of body energy regulation and an environment (physical and sensory) that has been increasingly characterized as 'hostile to good health'. The deceptively straightforward anthropomorphic definition of obesity is the excessive accumulation of body fat. However, obesity is a...

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