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As quiet as competing companies have become, there is no ignoring the elephant in the boardroom…
......there is a rush, an absolute scramble taking place around the world to capitalize on the obesity epidemic and America’s new found obsession with taking off the pounds. The problem is, the old “miracle” drugs have come under fire and have been thrown off the shelves….dietary supplement providers and their nutraceutical counterparts are undergoing intense regulatory scrutiny and their marketing strategies are being revamped as we write this today, while some scramble to stay in business.

Even fast food chains are changing their menus in lieu of a sexier, slimmer and decidedly healthier presence, touting salads and low-fat chicken-based meals as alternatives to fat-laden burgers and fries.

And it doesn’t end there...food and beverage manufacturers are scrambling to minimize carbs, fat, and sugar content while testing flavor additives to make their foods taste better and to help increase sales.

Overweight and obesity  

Overweight and obesity   are today's major nutritional problems in the industrialized countries, is far more common than all the nutritional problems combined, but there is no satisfactory definition for this disease and there is no single ratio of increased weight to height or a determined body mass index (BMI) at which we can say the associated diseases that will limit and shorten life, begin.

A practical definition is  "the excessive accumulation of body fat"  , but even this simple, "excess" is very subjective from patient to patient. Recent studies report that 80% of the American population is suffering a degree of overweight or obesity. Contributing factors are still subject to discussion, some are very clear but others are usually consequences rather than causes.For example, the influence of.

psychological factors  remains obscure; while the obese has been tagged as a compulsive eater or "overeater" when emotionally upset, so are many non-obese persons. Psychopathology may be linked to this disease only in a small number of people, some of these suffer from "night eating syndrome" (morning anorexia, evening gluttony and insomnia), other literature includes in this small group, those who have been obese since childhood, in this case, more than a psychological factor, common sense would call it a psychological consequence.

Family factors  are interesting, 80% of the offspring of 2 obese parents are obese, compared with 40% of 1 obese parent and only 10% of non obese parent, some authors refer to this factors as "genetics", also controversial, the translation of this statistics is: "slim parents may raise obese children and obese parents may raise slim children", obesity may not be genetically inherited, but is a fact that siblings learn bad habits from parents, many children are eating adult size meals, who knows… maybe obesity starts with a mother or father who derives pleasure from watching the family eat.  

Regarding  social factors, some studies mention that obesity is 6 times more prevalent among low-income people, but in conclusion people gain weight because of the chronic intake of "non-expensive calories" or "expensive calories", either one.

Even  Food habits  are confusing, while some obese people eat important amounts of food all day long, others don't, some are affected because of the quantity of their food and the others because of the quality, many slim people also spend the day eating between meals, people differ in the efficiency with which they use and store energy (in the form of adipose tissue).

here is one factor not yet found in literature, maybe the most common trigger of adult onset obesity seen at medical offices for weight control purposes, a lifestyle change, many people starts gaining weight after marriage, once graduated and working full time and / or after delivery, all of these involve either an increase in the caloric intake or a decrease in the caloric expenditure.

  

In conclusion, obesity will result from chronic caloric excess relative to the caloric expenditure, regardless of age, class, sex and ethnicity. 

The prevalence of obesity doubles between the ages of 20 and 50, and drastically drops in the elderly, the reason… lethal complications, very often combined, that will end the persons life, commonly in during their fifties.   

For decades, people with overweight and obesity have been subject of jokes, laughter, sometimes discrimination and have been considered guilty from their condition, while the truth is that they have been victims of a disease that affects not only the physical aspect of life, but also the behavioral and emotional, a disease that is now considered a life threatening, progressive chronic disease of epidemic proportions.

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