[Obesity is a disease--the "School of Healthy Weight Loss" is therapeutic].

UNLABELLED: The aim of the work is to point to the healthcare problems of obesity in our population, to estimate the results of the edcative programmees, to emphasize the significance of feeding habits, the habits of the healthy life, in the reducing of the body weight, and by this reduce the risk for the development of the noninfectious diseases. The retrospective six-monthly (January-June) the research of the results, the reducing of the obesity by the educative programmee in patients and more years in the frame "The school of the healthy becoming thin" of the institution for health protection in Mostar. In the paper are used the data from the social medical questionnaire seven day diary of the feeding, the data about the physician examination as well as the results of the individual group educative interventions. The received data are being compared with the referral values who, are being registered the number and kind of the intervention, number and the intensity of the individual follow-up of the patients as well as the number data of the success of the reducing of body weight after six months, the data are processed in epi- info programme from the total number (126 examinees) was 34% males, 66 females. In the sample divided according to the arc and sexuality the most represented was the middle arc (40-49 years) with 64% of the examines (53% males and 52% females). The heart troubles are present in 48%, the troubles of the locomotor system present in 68% examinees. The increased values of sugar in blood in the blood pressure > 140/90 mmHg has 32%. The examination of the feeding habits shows the presence of food in nutrition which constrain the excess of fats 30%, butter, 90% milk with fat over 2%, cake takes every day 37%. The habits of the physical activities has only 37% of the examinees, at all has no physical activities 23%, while because of the health reasons has no physical activity 37%. The total number of the visits to the counseling is 160, from body weight from 120 kg. (240 ponds). CONCLUSION: The obesity is expressed public health problem and in our inhabitance. It is significant expressed the comorbidity with the other risk factors. It is connected with unhealthy feeding habits, reduced physical activity, deficiency of activity, deficiency of the individual knowledges and informations about the healthy risks, evidently is expressed the weakness of the work of healthy protection, particularly the primary one, which does not put the obesity problem enough at the priority consideration level. It is enough to create the complete assistance and attention of the healthcare workers for all which have problem of the excessive body weight and desire to reduce it.