Question

What is the major problem of the overweight and obese population in the United States today

Answer 1

Obesity is the major problem of the modern world today. Many countries, specially developed one like USA are facing this problem as number of overweight or obese population is growing. Interestingly USA is at number 1 position in context of obesity rates.

Obesity can be the root cause of many severe problems and can result generating many diseases such as cancer, diabetes, osteoarthritis, chronic kidney disease, various cardio-vascular disorders i.e. stroke, coronary artery disease etc. It put significant amount of economic burden on the affected population also. In simple words if a person’s body mass index exceeds 23, he/she become vulnerable for all these diseases.