According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity in th

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity in the U.S. population increased from about 12% in 1991 to about 34% in 2006. The highest increase occurred in 18- to 29-year-olds. Although part of the reason is our increasingly sedentary lifestyle, the principal cause is our overconsumption of abundant processed food products, many of which are high in fat and sugar content. Why do you think fat tastes good to so many people, and is difficult to resist? Consider the fact that our appetites and digestive systems evolved over time under very different circumstances. Are there advantages to our tendency to eat too much that would have been selected for in the course of human evolution? How can we, as a society, deal with the problem?

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Fat has the ability to create unique textures—crispy or creamy—that appeal to our many senses.Food also changes from when it first hits your tongue to the aftertaste, and it's fat that helps create the familiar flavor profile.

Natural selection strongly favors traits that enhance the efficiency of foraging. Hence, as plant foods assumed increasing importance over evolutionary time (thousands, indeed millions, of years), selection gradually gave rise to the suite of traits now regarded as characteristic of primates. Most of these traits facilitate movement and foraging in trees. For instance, selection yielded hands well suited for grasping slender branches and manipulating found delicacies.

We as a part of society firstly should make other peoples aware of consequences of overeating of fats and spread this awareness among different peoples as well.Also this fact should be publicized by the media time and again that dietary intake of fat more than required would lead to tremendous health loss ,would definitely prove to solve the problem.We as parents should control the diet of our children and if that will make a habit in them then that could continue for some other generations as well.This will ensure healthy eating in the future generations making the society healthy.

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