As obesity rates increase, so too do the risks of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and numerous other detrimental conditions. The prevalence of obesity in U.S. adults more than doubled between 1980 and 2010, from 15.0 to 36.1%. Although this trend may be leveling off, obesity and its individual, societal, and economic costs remain of grave concern. In June 2014, a Diabetes Care Editors' Expert Forum convened to review the state of obesity research and discuss the latest prevention initiatives and behavioral, medical, and surgical therapies. This article, an outgrowth of the forum, offers an expansive view of the obesity epidemic, beginning with a discussion of its root causes. Recent insights into the genetic and physiological factors that influence body weight are reviewed, as are the pathophysiology of obesity-related metabolic dysfunction and the concept of metabolically healthy obesity. The authors address the crucial question of how much weight loss is necessary to yield meaningful benefits. They describe the challenges of behavioral modification and predictors of its success. The effects of diabetes pharmacotherapies on body weight are reviewed, including potential weight-neutral combination therapies. The authors also summarize the evidence for safety and efficacy of pharmacotherapeutic and surgical obesity treatments. The article concludes with an impassioned call for researchers, clinicians, governmental agencies, health policymakers, and health-related industries to collectively embrace the urgent mandate to improve prevention and treatment and for society at large to acknowledge and manage obesity as a serious disease.

https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/diacare/38/8/1567.full.pdf

Advances in the Science, Treatment, and Prevention of the Disease of Obesity: Reflections From a Diabetes Care Editors' Expert Forum.

Food wedges: Framing the global food demand and supply challenge towards 2050

Curbing global meat consumption: Emerging evidence of a second nutrition transition

Electrospinning and electrospray of bio-based and natural polymers for biomaterials development.

The costs of household food waste in South Africa.

Global and Regional Food Consumption Patterns and Trends

Transport of dangerous substances in the Republic of Macedonia

Tourism, if managed sustainably, can become a self-financing mechanism for nature and culturally rich
areas like Macedonia. The main aim of this article is to investigate and explain the main factors which impact
the sustainability of the local tourism management in Republic of Macedonia, with special reference to the case
of the city of Bitola. In this paper are presented the efforts of the city of Bitola to develop tourism through
forming own local tourism management system. The paper presents the characteristics, the challenges, issues
and opportunities in local tourism management in this city.
Key words: tourism management, local level, local government, sustainability.

Gordana Rechkoska

Papers

Global and Regional Food Consumption Patterns and Trends

Transport of dangerous substances in the Republic of Macedonia

Challenges of sustainable tourism management at local level in republic of macedonia: the case of the city of bitola