Every person planning to reduce, should undergo a thorough clinical examination and necessary laboratory investigation to diagnose the cause of obesity and associated complications, if there are any and then only should undertake a regimen of diet, exercise and treatment under expert guidance.

"When one inserts a coin to check one's weight on a weighing scale at an airport, at a railway station or at a restaurant and when reads eagerly about one's future given on the weight card, should one also not check whether can one afford to be over-weight ? ! "