How the UAE’s conversation about obesity is moving beyond the scale

For a long time, the conversation about obesity came down to one number on the scale. That is starting to change.Almost a quarter of adults in the UAE, 22.4 per cent, are living with obesity, according to the Ministry of Health and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Survey 2024-2025. The same survey found that more than half of adults have high cholesterol, about one in four has high blood pressure and one in eight has raised blood…


