Is Obesity A Result Of Genetics Or A Product Of Our Environment

happy woman of a weigh-scaleHaving excessive body fat is theoretically pretty easy to solve. Fat accumulates when there is more intake of calories than you’re able to burn off. Simple enough, but the chronic ever expanding North American waistlines can also be caused by a combination of genetics as well as the environment. So what then is the real cause of this current obesity epidemic.

In North America, the growth of obesity in the population is approaching close to 29% percent who are considered clinically overweight. Throughout the world now, “The Fat North …