started in the capital international congress of endocrinologists, and the main topic was the problem of excess weight, which many doctors are already calling the epidemic of the century. the statistics are alarming; almost 45 million people in russia suffer from obesity, and this diagnosis is increasingly being given to teenagers. olga mecheryakova’s report talks about what methods of struggle doctors offer. leading endocrinologists of the country gathered at the forum: to raise the problem, it exists, it’s just not customary to notice, because excess weight, according to global trends, is now not a disease, but a feature, but doctors are still the covid pandemic has been noticed, body-positive patients are the most difficult, there are more of them, they are growing exponentially, children are at risk, russian doctors are ready to break the trend, a conscious reboot. obesity in general today is considered as a non-infectious pandemic of the century, and the reports of the who regional european bureau speak about this. i want to say that the russian federation is funding the fight ag