It is indeed our greatest pleasure to welcome you to the official website of "Global Summit & Medicare Expo on Weight Loss" hosted by OMICS Group International scheduled during July 20-22, 2015 at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The theme of the conference focuses on “Advanced perspectives for better fitness and novel weight control strategies”. Obesity Asia Pacific-2015 is a remarkable event which brings together a unique and International mix of leading universities and health care groups making the congress a perfect platform to share experience, foster collaborations across industry and academia, and evaluate emerging technologies across the globe. The audience of this conference is expected from wide disciplines, and the conference will be informative and interesting with thought provoking International workshops and symposiums from distinguished professionals in the field.
Obesity Asia Pacific-2015 International conference is an exclusive platform for the professors, researchers, surgeons, health care groups in all areas of weight loss Treatment allowing for the dissemination of original research results, new ideas experiencing knowledge and the recent innovations in the field of Weight Loss. Obesity Asia Pacific-2015 focusses on the recent innovations in areas of Obesity and Co-morbidities, Weight Loss Techniques, Weight Loss Surgery, diet and nutrition.
OMICS Group International is an amalgamation of Open Access publications and worldwide International science conferences and events. It is established in the year 2007 with the sole aim of making the information on Sciences and technology ‘Open Access’, OMICS Group publishes 400 online open access scholarly journals in all aspects of Science, Engineering, Management and Technology.
Worldwide, obesity has nearly doubled since 1980. there has been a startling increase in rates of obesity and overweight in both adults (28% increase) and children (up by 47%) in the past 33 years, with the number of overweight and obese people rising from 857 million in 1980 to 2.1 billion in 2013, according to a major research analysis. In 2008, more than 1.4 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese. 65% of the world's population lives in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. 42 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese in 2013.
