Which evidence based indicators are useful in following weight loss and efficiency of treatment in overweight and obese patients?

Obesity is not life threatening, and it is not necessary leading to illness.

In dealing with obesity, it is important to distinguish morbid obesity from non-morbid obesity.

The most prominent cause of obesity is infectious diseases and inflammation, and the term infectobesity was coined by Dr. Nikhil V. Dhurandhar in 2001:

The up-regulated autophagy (xenophagy) triggered by infectious diseases turns the eliminated pathogens and dysfunctional cell components into nutrition and energy, which contributed to obesity. So obesity is a side effect of our body’s protective reaction to illness.

Obesity is normally measured by BMI. Yet, the big contributor to BMI is the subcutaneous fat, which is protective and normally harmless. But one relatively small component of the obesity, the excessive visceral fat and ectopic fat that surround the organs or enter the organ tissues, are very dangerous, which contributes to morbid obesity, and is associated with numerous diseases.

To get rid of the ectopic fats that surround the organs or enter the organ tissues, so as to avoid morbid obesity, daily regular time restrictive eating is efficient, and one still can live a long and healthy life by doing so: