Journal of Obesity & Eating Disorders

Dietary, Lifestyle Behaviors and Obesity in Modern Era

The epidemic of overweight and obesity presents a major challenge to chronic disease Æ?rÄ?Ç?Ä?nÆ?Žn and health across the life-span, as well as around the world. In United States, more than one-third of adults (35.0% among men and 40.4% among women) and 17% of youth are obese [1,2]. Although rÄ?ůÄ?Æ?Ç?Ä?ůy stable between 2003-2004 and 2009-2010 [1,2], obesity’s high prevalence in the US and the rapid increases worldwide, especially in childhood and other groups that experience health ŝnÄ?qƵÄ?ůŝÆ?Ä?Ɛ such as mŝnŽrŝÆ?Ä?Ɛ or some ŽccƵÆ?Ä?Æ?ŽnÄ?ů Æ?ŽÆ?ƵůÄ?Æ?ŽnƐÍ? represent major public health problems. Moreover, obesity strongly promotes risk factor clustering through adverse Ä?Ä«Ä?cÆ?Ɛ on blood pressure, lipids, glucose metabolism, sleep-disordered breathing and cardiac enlargement [3].

Author(s):

Mercedes Sotos Prieto and Stefanos N Kales

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