Introduction
Obesity is having high amounts of fat in your body that acts as a floodgate to a number of diseases. With your 300+ pounds, you are highly exposed to heart diseases, sleep apnea, type 2 diabetes, stroke and many other diseases (Knutson and Van Cauter). Statistics points out that the obesity rate among the U.S. children has doubled since 1980 (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2004). In the same period, the adolescence obesity incidence has trebled, and more than 15% of U.S. children aged between 6 and 19 are termed overweight today (SCHNEIDER). Adults are not spared either as ...
