Towards Obesity Causes, Prevalence and Prevention

Abstract

Obesity is simply defined as the condition of being significantly overweight. It's the state where an individual weight is greater than and exceeding the healthy weight. Obesity and overweight has become the fastest growing epidemic affecting not only Americans but also the entire population in the world. Now, The question is how to fight Obesity? Surely there are numerous effective, safe and natural ways to fight obesity but why don't we being educated, informed or even alarmed that our body might gain unneeded extra weight? To avoid reaching such a condition, an individual needs to detect early causes to prevent overweight from happening, there are many causes that will lead to gain weight but there are two parameters that are strongly considered vital factors in weight gaining, these two are the amount of food intake and the physical activity. Our study will focus on the previously mentioned factors to help individuals to take immediate response to their current state.