International Journal of Homoeopathic Sciences

The term obesity is derived from Latin word ‘obese ’meaning ‘having eaten. Root cause of obesity is overeating as suggested by its very name like genetics, environmental, social.

The obesity of overweight and obesity presents a major challenge to chronic disease prevention and health across the life course around the world. Fueled by economic growth, industrialization, an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, and a nutritional transition to proceed foods and high calories diets over the 30 years. A complex, multifactorial disease with genetic, behavioural, socioeconomic, and environment origins, obesity raises risk of debilitating morbidity and mortality.

This article elaborates the causes of obesity and their effects on the human body. Homoeopathic medicines are very safe and effective in treating conditions like obesity, diabetes. An insight on assessment of this condition, and its homoeopathic approach have been presented in this article. This article explains the risk of obesity and its management with different types of repertories. Homoeopathy has good scope in controlling the further deterioration of health and helps in maintaining the good health of the human body.