Nutrition and Weight Control for Longevity: WEIGHT CONTROL.

OBESITY risk factors; PHYSIOLOGICAL aspects of body weight; EXERCISE; CALORIC content of foods; METABOLISM

The article offers information on the factors that affect body weight, and discusses the health consequences of obesity. It highlights the crucial role played by controllable factors, such as the lack of exercise, emotional responses to food and high-calorie diet, in the development of obesity. It explores how to modify the impact of factors that are beyond control, such as heredity and metabolism, by increasing the level of physical activity and changing diet.