The real danger For most, food is now plentiful. At the same time, our caloric expenditure has slowed. Maybe some in the psychological community would like to think so. The truth is that we facing a health problem of epidemic proportions. Most deaths can be attributed to problems directly or indirectly related to obesity.
Obesity is an excessive storage of body fat.
Implied in the definition is that the fat stores are high enough to impair present health or to put the individual at higher risk for future health impairment. This approach is obscene. Repeatedly, it is stated that weight is gained when calories taken in exceed calories used, and reducing calorie intake to less than calories used results in weight loss. As weight is gained the body changes its metabolic pathways such that more energy is conserved and weight loss is harder. Obesity should be considered a legitimate, chronic, lifelong medical disorder and approached as such.