Preventing and Managing Obesity: The Scope of the Problem

Both childhood and adult obesity represent enormous global health problems both for developed and underdeveloped nations [1-4]. Obesity affects both genders and every ethnicity. In the United States, for example, the prevalence for obesity is currently 32.2% in adult men and 35.5% in adult women [5]. By any criteria, the obesity problem has reached epidemic proportions [6].