Episode 32 Why Weight Loss-Related Businesses are Booming

With the increasing rate of obesity in many countries, why aren’t we calling obesity a pandemic?  Obesity is a disease that  has slowly, silently and successfully infiltrated into peoples’ lives. It’s underestimated because people are not literally dying from carrying that extra 100 pounds for the last 30 yrs of their lives. Instead people are dying from heart disease, cancer, stroke in which we know very well that obesity has a major role.  Obesity is undervalued because it can not immediately kill a person. Undervalue?  I find this to be true and also false, depending on what perspective or lens you are looking through.