Revista de trastornos nutricionales y terapia

Abstracto

A World Program against Obesity: “The Frias Program”

Rogelio Frias-Mendoza

Reducing an individual’s weight is a matter of visiting a nutritionist and following a plan, reducing the weight of a whole society, country or world is a completely different topic that needs a special program in order to be achieved. As we all know, obesity has become the largest threat to the health and economy of the countries that suffer this malady. Much has been recommended by governments and health agencies who mention that, to reduce the weight of a society or a country as a whole, we all need to eat less calories and move more, but unfortunately, this recommendation has not contributed to reduce even a gram in the weight of the population of the obese countries, instead, it has allowed a daily progress of this pandemia, increasing the expenses in health services and medicines, that in the present day are hard to sustain. Reducing the weight of an obese society is not easy task due to the many interests that compose the problem, but in fact it is very possible. This is the reason I began working on designing A World Program against Obesity: The Frias Program, with sole purpose of accomplishing this highly important task. This program is composed by 7 revolutions which are described as follows: