Obesity

It seems like people are always looking for a quick and easy way to lose weight. This is because so many people are becoming obese. The definition of obesity is excess fat stored in the body. Being obese is different from being overweight. Being obese means a persons weight is twenty percent or more over the maximum desirable for their height, and being overweight means that a person might be a few pounds over their weight limit. Obesity has increased by about 10-50% in the majority of European countries in the last 10 years. That is a large rise. Two to eight percent of the total sick care costs in the Western countries are attributable to obesity. Obesity is rising to epidemic proportions around the world at an alarming rate. Twenty-five percent of the United States population is overweight!
Obesity is a chronic disease in the sense that it rarely, if ever, truly goes away. Often, medicines used to treat obesity usually do not work. Unfortunately, the difference between the pe...