Under the patronage of the Dean of the College of Nursing, Assistant Professor Dr. Salman Hussein Fares Al-Guraiti, and the follow-up of Assistant Professor Dr. Hassan Abdullah Athbi Al-Maliki, Assistant Dean for Scientific Affairs and Postgraduate Studies, and Professor Dr. Fatima Makki Mahmoud, Head of the Adult Nursing Branch. The Adult Nursing Branch at the College of Nursing at the University of Karbala organized a training course on “Excessive Obesity: Causes and Methods of Prevention” with the participation of a group of researchers and specialists, in the presence of a number of faculty and staff. The course lasted for three days, in which the teacher, Ali Jabbar Abdul Hussein, the assistant teacher, Samira Muhammad Saeed, and the assistant teacher, Taher Mohsen Hashem, lectured. The course aimed to diagnose the main causes of obesity and how to get rid of them by following a diet and reducing the number of calories you consume while exercising. The participants discussed the need for the diet to include lifestyle changes, and this may require surgical intervention. Media of the College of Nursing