He nods. "Surgery is a drastic solution," he says, "but then obesity is
   the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to declare obesity an
   from 1980. Obesity is defined by your body mass index, or BMI, a fancy
   those stigmatized by obesity. In one study at Michigan State
   So in one sense, the obesity crisis is the result of simple math. It's
   to obesity don't necessarily have slow metabolisms that help their
   obesity epidemic?"