Obesity: The Mythical Creature Demystified

When body fat accumulates in astronomical proportions, as evidenced by an obvious increase in body size, the term used to describe this condition is obesity. In the good old days, this was a sign of wealth. For a guy, a protruding one pack (Big beer belly) was enough to set the girls into a frenzy. I tell you, in the good old days, girls were much less completed. However, in the bad new days scientist linked this ''show of financial force'' to myriad of health problems such as heart disease, stroke to name but a few.
Those with good eyes have noted that in fact more often than not,this condition begins in childhood. In this the chances of the individual being obese is 3 times as much compared to skinny kids like me, having a more or less normal body fat.
And I'm sorry to say, unlike most things that happen to children, obesity wont be one of those things that one will grow out of. Its very sad really...
However with drastic lifestyle changes, in terms of physical activity and good eating habits, this condition can be reversed and kept under lock down Alcatraz style!
One thing thus also been noted is that is that children bone to obese parents are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop the condition. And laymen will be quick to blame the genetics!
Wise men from the labs however tell us that genes are not only to blame. In a family of obese parents lifestyle norms are likely to promote this condition. Obese parents are least likely to practice good eating habits or physical activities. Thus kids brought up in this environment even without genetic inheritance will most likely develop this condition.
But hold on. The skinny people aren't escaping this either! Research shows a general increase in the incidences of fatness among the adult ages of 25 to 44 years. Women usually have a larger share of this statistic (and am not being chauvinistic). This is because our cooperate office lifestyles disable us from partaking in any physical activity other Friday night out. Which is not enough action!
Moral
Obesity is everyone's problem, and we all susceptible. And its easy to blame food! But is food always the culprit?
Till next time