Over the last decades, obesity has nearly tripled worldwide [
[1]
]. The current spread of obesity across sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia will
end up with this condition becoming a global epidemic [
[2]
]. Sweeping changes in various lifestyle features spawned this outbreak. As a consequence,
obese people carry the burden of augmented cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer
[
[3]
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Publication History
Published online: October 13, 2021
Accepted:
October 3,
2021
Received:
September 12,
2021
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