Track 1: Obesity

Obesity is an abnormal accumulation of body fat, usually 20% or more over an individual's ideal body weight. Obesity is associated with increased risk of illness, disability, and death.

 The branch of medicine that deals with the study and treatment of obesity is known as bariatrics. As obesity has become a major health problem in the United States, Bariatrics has become a separate medical and surgical specialty.

Track 2: Obesity Medication

Treatment of obesity depends primarily on how overweight a person is and his or her overall health. However, to be successful, any treatment must affect life-long behavioral changes rather than short-term weight loss. Dieting in which weight is repeatedly lost and regained, has been shown to increase a person's likelihood of developing Fatal health problems than if the weight had been lost gradually or not lost at all.

Track 3: Genetics of Obesity

Obesity could be a complex disease ensuing from the interactions of a wide type of hereditary and environmental factors. The combined progress in quantitative genetics, genetic science and Bioinformatics has contributed to a better understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of obesity. Clustering of cases among a family, the harmoniousness of weight for monozygotic twins, and therefore the discovery of genes related to obesity are all arguments reinforcing the genetic dimension of obesity. In a study conducted by the National Institute of diabetes and digestive and excretory organ Diseases, the resting metabolic rates of over five hundred volunteers were analyzed and located to vary from burning as few as 1,067 calories daily to as several as three,015 calories. Genes also play a role in how our bodies react to exercise.

Track 4 : Complications in Obesity

Obesity increases the risk of developing a number of serious health conditions, including:

•  Type 2 diabetes
•  High blood pressure
•  Heart disease, Heart Stroke
•  Gallbladder disease
• Gynecological problems, such as infertility and irregular periods.
•  High triglycerides and low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol

 Track 5: Childhood Obesity

Obesity during childhood could be a major risk factor that inflicts severe immediate and future health complications. High BMI values in kids are indicative of possible prevalence of metabolic disorders like heart diseases and polygenic disease within the future. The early physical effects of obesity in adolescence include the majority of the child’s organs being affected, gallstones, hepatitis, sleep apnoea and raised intracranial pressure. Overweight kids are also a lot of probably to grow up to be overweight adults. Childhood obesity will be prevented by the assistance of parents and different relations, by applying little changes within the daily food habits. One will encourage healthy habits in their kids by not giving high calorie product to their kids. The youngsters should not be addicted to them. They should facilitate their kids to be physically active by regular games and exercise.

Track 6 : Obesity in Women

For women, the risks include heart disease and hypertension. Children have a risk of future obesity and heart disease. Both women and their offspring are at increased risk for diabetes Obesity in pregnancy can affect health later in life for both mother and child. Maternal obesity can cause negative outcomes for both women and foetuses and it also increases the risk of a number of pregnancy complications. Women who are overweight or obese are less likely to have a live birth following in vitro fertilization.

Track7: Obesity and Cancer

Extra fat in the body might have harmful effects, like producing hormones and growth factors that have an effect on the way our cells work. Fat cells also can attract immune cells to body tissues which release chemicals that cause Long-lasting inflammation. this can raise the chance of many diseases as well as cancer. People with obesity have chronic low-level or sub-acute unresolved inflammation, which is associated with increased cancer risk. One of the strongest links between obesity and cancer is an increased risk of breast and uterus cancers in ladies who are obese after the menopause, and this relates to higher estrogen levels. Overweight people usually have enlarged levels of hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1 which can result in the development of certain tumors.

Track 8: Obesity in Animals

The problem of obesity isn't confined to just humans. A new study finds increased rates of obesity in mammals ranging from feral rats and mice to domestic pets and laboratory primates.  Dogs that are over nourished, lack the ability to exercise, or that have a tendency to retain weight are the most at risk for becoming obese.

Track 9: Obesity and Weight Management

Weight management could be a long-run approach to a healthy manner. It includes a balance of healthy consumption and exercise to equate energy expenditure and energy intake. Developing healthy consumption habits while using tips that may keep us fuller longer can be helpful tools in weight management. Knowing what your body desires is very important to weight management and may control overconsumption and under consumption of food. Weight management doesn't include Fad diets that promote fast, temporary weight loss. It focuses on the long-term results that are achieved through slow weight loss, followed by retention of an ideal weight for age, sex and height.

Track 10: Obesity and Psychiatric Disorders

Several studies have found that a numbers of patients with mental illness are obese compared to the general population. Mental illness may increase the risk of obesity, while obesity may increase an individual's chances to develop a psychiatric disorder. The reasons behind the link between obesity and psychiatric problems are poor self-image, the biological disruptions caused by obesity, physical inactivity and the social stigma related to being overweight. Epidemiological studies justify positive associations between obesity and mood disorders.

•  Personality disorder
• Eating disorder
• ADHD

Track 11: Advanced Treatment for Obesity

Specialists like dieticians, direct counsel or a bulkiness power to appreciate and take off enhancements in eating and activity penchants. All weight programs require changes in eating Disorders and extended physical activity. The treatment systems that are right depends endless supply of heaviness, general prosperity and capability of individual to understand weight lessening masterminds.

Track 12: Prevention of Obesity

Preventing obesity is important. Once fat cells form, they remain in your body forever. Although you can reduce the size of fat cells, you cannot get rid of them. Obesity experts recommend that a key to preventing excess weight gain is monitoring fat consumption instead of counting calories, and therefore the National cholesterol Education Program maintains that only 30 % of calories should be derived from fat. Only one-third of those calories should be contained in saturated fats (the reasonably fat found in high concentrations in meat, poultry, and dairy farm products).Because most people eat more than they think they do, keeping a detailed food diary is auseful way to assess eating habits.

Track 13: Current Research on Obesity

Worldwide, at least 2.8 million people die annually as a results of being overweight or fat, and an estimated 35.8 million (2.3%) of world DALYs are caused by overweight or obesity. Overweight and fatness result in adverse metabolic effects on blood pressure, sterol, triglycerides and hypoglycemic agent resistance. Risks of coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular accident and type 2 diabetes increase steady with increasing body mass index (BMI), a measure of weight relative to height. Raised Body mass index also will increase the chance of cancer of the breast, colon, prostate, mucous membrane, excretory organ and gall bladder. Mortality rates increase with increasing overweight, as degrees of measured by body mass index. The prevalence of overweight and fatness were highest within the WHO Regions of the Americas (62% for overweight in each sexes, and twenty sixth for obesity) and lowest within the WHO Region for South East Asia (14% overweight in both sexes and three for obesity).

Track 14: Diet and Health

The food choices we make can have an important impact on our health. However, expert opinions continue to change about which and how much of these foods are optimal. The World Health Organization (WHO) makes the following 5 recommendations with respect to both populations and individuals. Maintain a healthy weight by eating roughly the same number of calories that your body is using. Limit intake of fats. Not more than 30% of the total calories should come from fats. Prefer unsaturated fats to saturated fats. Avoid Trans fats. Eat at least 400 grams of fruits and vegetables per day (potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava and other starchy roots do not count). A healthy diet also contains legumes (e.g. lentils, beans), whole grains and nuts. Limit the intake of sugar. A 2003 report recommends less than 10% of calorie intake from simple sugars.

Track 15: Dietary Supplements

A dietary supplement is either intended to provide nutrients in order to increase the quantity of their consumption, or to provide non-nutrient chemicals which are claimed to have a biologically beneficial effect. Supplements as generally understood include vitamins, minerals, fiber, fatty acids, or amino acids, among other substances. U.S. authorities define dietary supplements as foods, while elsewhere they may be classified as drugs or other products. There are more than 50,000 dietary supplements available. More than half of the U.S. adult population (53%-55%) consumes dietary supplements with most common ones being multivitamins.

Track 16: Balanced Diet and Chronic Diseases

Poor diet is one of the major contributors to the leading causes of chronic illness and death. Healthy diets along with physical activity are key to good nutrition and necessary for a long and healthy life. Eating nutritional foods and balancing energy intake with the necessary physical activity to maintain a healthy weight is essential at all stages of life. Unbalanced intake of foods high in energy (sugar, starch and/or fat) but low in essential nutrients commits to energy excess, overweight and obesity. The quantity of the energy consumed in relevancy to physical activity and also the quality of food are key determinants of nutrition connected to chronic disease.

•  Heart disease
•  Diabetes
•  Hyperlipidemia

Track 17: Nutrition and Obesity

A nutritional deficiency happens when the body doesn’t get sufficient nutrient food or absorb nutrient taken in the form of food. Deficiencies will result in a variety of health issues. Obesity causes vitamin D deficiency, a nutrient that helps the body absorb calcium, which is essential for healthy bones, the nutritional recommendations has mainly helped in prevention of diseases. Diet and physical activity are the most difficult exposures to assess in observational research and are plagued by considerable measurement error. These will embrace digestion problems, skin disorders, scrubby or defective bone growth, and even dementia. A person can be overweight and still be malnourished. This can be due to having a diet consisting of food and drink that's high in fat and sugar but low in essential vitamins and minerals.

• Malnutrition
• Fast Foods and Obesity
• Nutrition in Prevention Diseases

Track 18: Role of Steroids and Hormones in Obesity

Sex steroid hormones are concerned with the metabolism, accumulation as well as the distribution of adipose tissues. Recent studies reveal that progesterone receptor, oestrogen receptor and androgen receptor exist in adipose tissues therefore, their actions could be direct. Sex steroid hormones carry out their function in adipose tissues by both nongenomic and genomic mechanisms.

•  Metabolic effects of steroids hormones in obesity
• Obesity and corticosteroids
• Steroid hormones in our food and obesity

Track 19: Obesity and Cardiovascular diseases

Obesity increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, particularly heart failure and coronary heart disease (CHD).The mechanisms through which obesity increases cardiovascular diseases risk involve changes in body composition that may affect hemodynamics and alters heart structure. Pro-inflammatory cytokines produced by the adipose tissue can induce cardiac dysfunction and can promote the formation of atherosclerotic plaques.

• Heart Failure and Coronary Heart Diseases
• Obesity Paradox
• Cardiovascular Impact Adipose Tissue

Track 20: Obesity and its Causes

It is a disorder that involves excessive body fat that increases the risk of health problems. Obesity often results from taking in more calories than are burned by exercise and normal daily activities. When a person's body mass index is greater than 25, they are said to be obese. The extra fat increases the risk of various health problems. The condition is caused when the body is consuming more calories than it utilizes. Imbalanced diet, lack of physical activities, unhealthy lifestyle, environmental and behavioral factors is some of the few of the causes for obesity.

• Food addiction
• Insulin resistance
• Sedentary life

Track 21: Nutritional Epidemiology

Nutritional epidemiology is the study of human health in relation to nutrition. What started as a small sub discipline of epidemiology some decades ago has grown into a branch with major public health importance. Now that nutritional deficiencies have been dramatically reduced in most developed countries, the purpose of nutritional recommendations has been the prevention of diseases. Nutritional epidemiology is one of the younger disciplines in epidemiology. This may be partially due to the difficulties in measuring diet as an exposure. Diet and physical activity are arguably the most difficult exposures to assess in observational research and are plagued by considerable measurement error. We all eat, we all eat many different foods, we tend to forget rather quickly what we ate, and we often do not know the ingredients of the dishes we consume. Hence we are all exposed, and the variation may be more subtle than with other, more distinct exposures such as smoking or use of hormone replacement therapy. Few people maintain extreme diets.

Track 22: Nutrition and Diabetes

The nutrition therapy recommended for people with diabetes is often based on theories or the opinions of the medical treatment provider. People with diabetes often find this frustrating or confusing, because they hear or read that ideally they should be on a low-carbohydrate diet but from other sources they are told that they should be eating a high-carbohydrate, high-protein, or low-fat diet. However, in recent years, there has been a shift in how medical recommendations for prevention and treatment of various diseases are developed. Medical recommendations, including those for nutrition therapy, are now being developed using an evidence-based approach.

Track 23:Clinical Nutrition

Nutrition and nutritional care have gained wide clinical and scientific interest during the past decades. The increasing knowledge of metabolic disturbances and nutritional assessment in chronic and acute diseases has stimulated rapid advances in design, development and clinical application of nutritional support. The aims of European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, are to encourage the rapid diffusion of knowledge and its application in the field of clinical nutrition and metabolism.

Track 24: Sports Nutrition

Fats, macromolecule and carbohydrates all provide your body with fuel to keep up energy. Carbohydrates are the primary fuel utilized by working muscles. Adequate intake is crucial for preventing muscle fatigue. Whereas you should monitor your fat intake, you should not take away it from your diet fully. Fats provide fatty acids which will be used as a supply of energy - particularly if your exercise sessions last longer than one hour. Fats additionally give the building blocks for hormones and formation of cell walls. Macromolecule is used as a supply of energy and is crucial for building new muscle tissue. If you're taking part in resistance training, your body would require extra macromolecule.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) European more than 50% of the both men and women were obese. In 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults and 18 years and older were obese.  High rate of obesity is a global burden. The European weight loss and weight management diet market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 2.33%. The revenue generated for this market is expected to increase from $2534 million in 2016 to $3120 million by 2025. The growing pace of obesity and chronic diseases combined with the rising geriatric population in Europe are generating a demand for the weight management products. WHO's  recommendations for preventing and managing obesity emphasize the need for coordinated partnerships involving different government sectors, communities, the mass media and the private sector to ensure that diet and daily levels of physical activity can be changed effectively and sustainably. Bariatric surgeries were formerly considered as the last option for weight loss after dieting, exercise, and other medically prescribed programs had failed. However, with technological advancements, bariatric surgeries have now become less painful for patients.  These surgeries are now increasingly being accepted by the medical community as an effective and long-lasting alternative to other weight loss techniques. This circumstance, coupled with the rapidly increasing obesity rates, has resulted in a rapid increase in the number of bariatric surgeries across the globe. The growing number of bariatric surgeries in major markets across the globe is expected to increase the demand for bariatric surgical equipment and other products required in these procedures.

The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing across the global which lacks physical activity and unhealthy eating habits. Cases where childhood obesity is caused due to hormonal problems are very rare. In children, the total number of inactive hours is increasing as they are spending a significant amount of time in front of the television and playing computer games.  Obese children are more likely to be obese in their adulthood and are more prone to suffer from diabetes and cardiovascular diseases at an early age.  Globally, the number of overweight children (under the age of 5) was estimated to be over 41 million. As a result of this trend, the demand for healthier balanced diets is expected to increase across the world wide. This will provide significant growth opportunities for players operating in the weight loss and weight management products and services market.