Click here to send your E-Mail letter to the editor. Obesity is brought on by lifestyle and causes disease. With the exception of the rare metabolic disorder, obese people have made the choice to be overweight. Poor food choices and inactivity are to blame. For what ever reasons, be they emotional, economic, etc., obese people have made the choice to be over weight.
Obesity is a western epidemic.
I can guarantee you will not find near the amount of obese people in China, Vietnam, Africa, or South America. Their lifestyles are completely different and simply do not support obesity. If you do find an obese person in other parts of the world, chances are pretty good that the person is wealthy and can afford a more western style of life. Our western lifestyle affords us the opportunity to order up an entire days worth of kcalories without spending more kcalories than is required to pick up a phone and order a big, fat, greasy pizza. I am a B.Sc. student majoring in human biology.