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Effects of obesity
`It is largely recognized that obesity is one of the most chronic illnesses which is dire need of novel strategies for medical prevention and treatment. Definitively, obesity may be defined as excess body tissue (Naab, Schlegl, Korte, Heuser, Fumi, 2006).In the 1990s, obese adults made up of less than 15% of the populace in most United States states. By the year 2010, at least 36 states had obesity rates of about 25% or higher, and at least 12 of those had obesity rates of up to 30% or higher. (Fittig, Jacobi, Backmund, Gerlinghoff, Wittchen, 2008)
What is more alarming, the prevalence of obesity and overweight in children and adolescents is on a devastating rise, and youth are becoming