肥胖症是一种主要由不良饮食习惯而导致的疾病。在食品供应丰富,机器取代人力的当今社会,肥胖已成为危害人类健康的主要杀手。当今世界“吃”死的人要比饿死的人多据世界卫生组织统计,全球肥胖症患者现在已经达到了3亿人,其中儿童占2200万人,另外还有11亿人体重超标。目前,全球因“吃”致病乃至死亡的人数已高于因饥饿死亡的人数。 Obesity is a disease caused mainly by poor eating habits. In today’s society where food supplies are abundant and machines replace manpower, obesity has become a major killer of human health. According to the World Health Organization, the number of people with obesity in the world has now reached 300 million, of which 22 million are children and another 1.1 billion are overweight . At present, the number of people who cause or die due to “eating” in the world is higher than the number of people who died of hunger.