The epidemic knows no barriers. Increases in obesity occur across virtually all ethnic, racial and socioeconomic populations and all ages. Research shows that obese children become obese adults. You bet it does. Unfortunately, controlling calories and increasing energy expenditures is very difficult.
Environmental forces play a strong role in obesity.
Consumers want quick, easy and convenient foods to eat. Numerous opportunities to dine out offer serving sizes such as large, jumbo, super and giant to choose from. Guidelines from the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, recommend obesity be recognized as a chronic disease that includes periodic flare-ups of weight regain. The disease is never cured but arrested and then controlled. Treatment must be designed to appropriately treat the problem of weight regain acutely and chronically.