Dr.Eknoyan wrote about when technology became more advances it help us to produced abundant of food.Eventually people became more and more robust when plenty of food available. The information on obesity being a “well defined pathologic consequence is less than a century old”( para.1).Throughout history when food was less attainable, people contacted that being obese was a stupendous achievement. In the nineteenth century, The corpulence wasn’t aesthetically pleasing and latter down it’s still not easy on the eye (.Eknoyan, 2006).
Obesity is a prevalent epidemic. In the eighteenth century, it was documented that people will have improved “quality of life” (para. 2) if you weren’t obese. It was only realized latter in the nineteenth century that obesity had abundant of maleffects. Obesity was label as a disease because of its rapid growth in the past 60 years. “Which led the World Organization to declare it as a global …show more content…
Our body does the natural way of just storing the remaining energy as fat. Whenever the body start starving it can tap into our fats as reserve. During the prehistoric time, it was vitally important to store fat because when the land was covered with famine and disease the people who only survived were the human who could store a surplus of fat in their body. The species who could contain the most fat easily was an “evolutionary advantage in the harsh environment”(Eknoyan, 2006 para. 5). The beauty and the importance of obesity culturally is being depicted by a “mysterious nude female figurines of stone Age Europe, dating back to more than 20,000 years ago”(para. 5). The figures show her curvy body shape, sagging breast and protruding belly.The plumpness was more alluring and it was displayed by their arts. This represents that more than 20,000 years ago their were obese people (Eknoyan,