Clinicians in the field should understand how a myriad of factors contribute to obesity including: gut microbiota diversity, regulation of food intake and energy balance through enteroendocrine and neuroregulation, and adipokine physiology.
Rather, they feel as though obesity, as a complex disease process, should be treated by endocrinologists or physicians who have acquired additional training in the field of nutrition.
[6] While professionals from different professions (US senators, congressmen and congresswomen, physicians, and medical students) applauded this decision,[7] others were not so eager to categorize obesity as a disease.
[9] Only a few medical schools and residency programs offer training and education in the field of obesity.
[11][12][13] In order to address this issue, medical schools and residency programs will need to modify their curriculum to teach their students and residents about this disease process to ensure that the large subset of the patients that they encounter in their careers receive adequate treatment.