The expanding public health threat of obesity and overweight.

Obesity and overweight is a continuing public health crisis. This health threat respects no boundaries or economic strata, and is a pervasive universal threat with short- and long-term negative sequelae associated. Pharmacists and other health professionals need to structure interventions from individual patient and population-based standpoints. Documentation of effects of programmes needs to be disseminated and incorporated into educational, research and practice-based efforts.