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 glucose. Those conditions rarely turn up alone.