Medical Complications of Obesity Obesity is a serious disease process that can lead to many medical complications. Unfortunately, weight management, which generally improves these complications (“medical co-morbidities”) requires long-term intervention to achieve long-term results. Sometimes, relatively simple dietary interventions such as decreasing saturated-fat intake, increasing intake of EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and especially DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) [...]