Abstract
According to current statistics, there are at an average childs general practice about seventy children registered with obesity, including fifty children indicated for long-term treatment of obesity due to medical indications and fifteen children are intended for targeted modifications in their diet. Currently, we are exposed to pandemic common obesity, which is a chronic metabolic disease with societal consequences.
Common obesity mainly reflects an early onset of cardio-metabolic risk, but the clinical picture of complications of childhood obesity is broader and includes not only the risk of life-limitation, but also respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurological, orthopaedic and endocrine complications along with serious psychosocial problems. The effects caused by childhood obesity are reversible initially, and early identification and treatment is a major clinical challenge in preventing the development of serious metabolic, organ, psychological and societal complications.