Obesity in Iran: Challenges Arising and Policy Options

Obesity is serious and most important underlying risk factor on incidence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Obesity in early ages has to lead to deaths caused by NCDs in production ages, consequently reduced domestic production and imposed financial burden on countries . In the past two decades, obesity has had an increasing trend worldwide and among all age groups. Nu-trition transition is a period through which a change happens in the dietary pattern and physi-cal activity; people's nutritional diet has become rich in saturated fats, sugar, and refined foods but poor in fiber which in turn has resulted in in-crease of overweight, obesity, and their related diseases .