Obesity is a disease that affects 39 million Americans: more than one-quarter of adults and about one of every five children. Each year, obesity causes 300,000 deaths in the U.S. Obesity is a chronic, metabolic disease caused by a combination of complex inherited and acquired factors, including excessive calorie and food intake, decreased physical activity, and genetic influences. The defining characteristics are excess body fat and the long-term treatment and management are necessary to achieve and …showed first 75 words of 720 total…

…showed last 75 words of 720 total…common due to laziness, technological advances, and how simple it is to over indulge. This causes many problems with your body including high blood pressure, infertility, gallstones and type 2 diabetes. These diseases can be deadly. All of these reasons are real incentives to lower obesity in America today. http://www.cdc.gov/genomics/info/perspectives/files/obesedit.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/2153020.stm http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/12755.html