Italy is the first and only country in the world to have a law on obesity. Promoter and first signatory of the law, the honorable Roberto Pella, president of the parliamentary interior “Obesity, diabetes and non -transmissible chronic diseases“. What the law proposesThe legislative act structured in six articles provides for an integrated approach in the fight against obesity which includes prevention, care and social awareness. The approval of the first law in the world aimed at counteracting obesity falls in coincidence with the opening in Trieste of the XII National Congress of the Italian Society of Obesity (Sio) which meets the major Italian and international experts of obesity. “The Italian Society of Obesity is very happy for the approval of the Law Pella on obesity, a historical passage that definitively confirms for the first time to the world a specific and systematic legislation of obesity as a disease, a point of no return and a source of pride for Italy”Report Rocco Barazzoni, Sio president.