Discomfort often greatly limits pleasurable physical activity. Obesity may alter or stop a woman's menstrual cycles. For many men and women who are obese, skin breakdown is often a problem due to trapped secretions and friction between skin folds. Obesity is also directly linked to high blood pressure, heart disease, and fatal heart attacks. Other factors increase your risk if you are obese.
Males are automatically at higher risk due to their lack of estrogen.
Those who get no exercise or who smoke are at greater risk. If you already have high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, heart disease or diabetes, our overall health risk is increased even more. The marketing experts would have us believe that we all should be eating large quantities of added artificial fiber, chemically altered sugar , and designer fat . Their message is that we should never feel hungry, because we might go out of control . In any large city in America, you can find 20 or more diet centers that promote altered food.