What is Obesity?

It is a body condition characterized by storage of excessive amounts of fat in adipose tissue beneath the skin and within other organs, including muscles. All mammals store body fat; in women the normal amount of body weight stored as fat is 25 per cent, in men 15 per cent.

For most people, eating less fat and filling up on starchy and high-fibre foods, fruit, and vegetables will help them to lose weight. Fat provides more than twice as many calories per gram as carbohydrate or protein. As a result, reducing the amount of fat in a diet can drastically reduce the number of calories. Furthermore, excess fat in the diet may be stored as body fat more readily than a carbohydrate or protein.

Fat provides the most energy—more than twice that of carbohydrate or protein. Obesity is a result of taking in more energy food than one uses in activity.

What this teaches us is?

If you not going to burn the energy, don’t eat it!