Problem
Being overweight could be a big problem to people not only does it affect your daily life, it also affects your health. It can cause back problems, feet problems and heart problems and many other diseases could occur due to obesity. Being obese would sometimes make people feel ashamed of their looks and further affecting their psychological mind.

Cause
Amongst all people of all ages and races, the ones most likely to be obese are middle aged black women. According to statistics published in 1984, approximately 60% of all-American black women 45 to 64 years of age were overweight. Obesity runs in family. If both your mother and father are obese than you have an 80% chance of being obese as well. If only one of your parents is obese than you have a 40% chance of being obese. But if none of your parents are obese than you only have a 10% chance of being obese. However, education, religion and culture are also factors, which sometimes cause obesity. Sometimes youˇ¦re your ethnic heritage and your religious affiliation may also be risk factors either because you follow eating patterns that encourage you to be overweight. Or sometimes people lack the knowledge of how overweight could affect the body.

How Serious
At present there are no medically certain ways to control obesity. Obesity could cause a lot of life threatening illnesses such as heart diseases, diabetes and cause a lot inconveniences for daily life.

Solutions
Playing slow, soft music during meals will encourage you to eat slower --- and maybe to eat less. ---Maria Simonson, Sc.D., Ph.D., professor emeritus and director of the Health, Weight and Stress Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore.