US Center for Disease Control says, above 64 percent of Americans are overweight and obesity can soon overtake smoking as leading cause of death. During 2000, around 420,000 died in US due to smoking, while poor health and physical inactivity eliminated 400,000. British Medical Journal warns that puppy fat is gateway to adult obesity. Persistent childhood obesity gets stabilized before teens. Besides serious diseases like hyper-tension, diabetes and heart ailments all linked to obesity, social ridicule faced by over weight persons during childhood also spurts unhealthy attitudes. Overweight children are vulnerable to playground taunts. This leads to seclusion and depression and lack of activity in children, graduating to manhood. The situation being serious, world governments and social organizations are active. A recent agreement between major beverage distributors and anti-obesity advocates bars non-diet soda in US public schools. Companies including Cadbury Schweppes PLC, Coca Cola, PepsiCo, etc agre Cheap Wedding Invitations ed to sell only water, juice and low fat milks to elementary and middle schools. Australian state Queensland has rolled out a 21 million dollars scheme that includes teaching obesity in schools and mailing self-help packs to every household. Alarmed at 1.3 million obese adults in the state, the government is directing packaged foods to label calorie content details. Scientists and tradesmen are collaborating to tap the $100 billion obese market. Company that invented heart pacemaker is working on a battery charged gastric pacemaker that signals satiety to brain’s appetite centre. Work is on in famous Mayo Clinic on an electrical device that paralyses stomach, reducing contractions churning food, during digestion process. Several weight loss drugs are in market getting increasingly popular with celebrities and those who want to lose weight quickly. One obvious way to lose weight is to eat less. Diet pills contain substances that curb appetite and reduce hungry feeling. Less carbs mean less weight.
