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Abstract
Worldwide, Obesity nowadays is considered as an epidemic; it constitutes a major public health problem that results in significant public health threat. Obesity is a chronic, complex, multifactorial, relapsing disease due to excessively or abnormally accumulation of adipose tissue or fat in the body. This will lead to health impairment due to imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure leading to adiposity referring to the amount of fat generally. The adiposity is either a percentage body fat or absolute fat mass. Therefore the adiposity degree can be used as a clinical obesity indicator rather than weight.
Obesity over the last few decades has become a global epidemic. It constitutes a major public health problem in developed countries and is already an emerging cause for concern in developing countries
Quality of life is defined by WHO, as an individuals’ perception of their position in life in regard to their values and culture in which they live and their standards, goals, concerns and expectations. It is a wide range concept affected by a multiple, complex factors as personal beliefs, psychological state, physical health, social relationships and their ability to recognise their environment. This definition is very important as it recognises the multidimensional aspect of quality of life, including the four domains (psychological health, physical health, environment and social relationships) and acknowledge the specificity of quality of life to individuals.