[From obesity to obesities: from concepts to practices].

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In the singular, obesity is a symptom reflecting an excess of energy stores as fat mass, the only trait obese people are sharing. Long time ago we proposed to use the plural to account for the large diversity characterizing obese subjects that conceptual evolutions have put to the fore during the past three decades. Weight gain and obesity are resulting from a positive energy balance produced by the conjunction...

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