Obesity:
                            OBESITY AND MORTALITY
   According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity and overweight
   deaths per year are due to the obesity epidemic (57).
   The results of two extensive studies examining obesity-attributable
   Health Study, to estimate the number of deaths attributable to obesity
   al. estimated that 280,184 obesity-attributable deaths occurred in the
   smoking status, i.e., that obesity would exert the same deleterious
   due to obesity was 324,940.
   for preexisting disease, the mean annual number of obesity-attributable
   obesity and death from all causes was found among study subjects who
   Obesity was associated with higher mortality rates for both
   ascertain the differences in the effect of obesity on mortality among
     * The Economic Costs of Obesity
     * Treatment of Obesity