The Real Skinny on Obesity
About 97 million adults in the United States are “fat,” overweight or obese. As a consequence, there is convincing evidence that obesity increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, gallbladder disease and osteoarthritis. Of even more alarm, experts estimated in 2009 that obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the U.S. each year and they predicted that this number will rise as more Americans get fatter. In contrast, there is now a study stating that, “extra pounds may…
