La obesidad: una visita a la Historia
ISSN: 1697-4298, 0034-0618
Year of publication: 2016
Volume: 82
Issue: 2
Pages: 27-43
Type: Article
More publications in: Anales de la Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia
Abstract
Try writing in twenty pages about obesity through history would be a genuine recklessness. However, to meet the friendly custom of including some of the central issues exposed in the III Advanced Course of Obesity, organized by the Royal Spanish Academy of Pharmacy, we cannot but draw a general picture about the State of the art, divided into the following four headings: first, the establishment of a general context in the frame of biological evolution. Second, the logics or pre scientific bases - if we mean by scientific those achieved by modern and contemporary science - established in the History to understand the phenomenon of obesity. Third, the social and aesthetic aspects of fatness. And finally, a small visit to illustrious obese people.