While genetic influences are important to understanding obesity, they cannot explain the current dramatic increase seen within specific countries or globally. It is accepted that calorie consumption in excess of calorie expenditure leads to obesity, however what has caused shifts in these two factors on a global scale is much debated.Changing rates of obesity are related to a number of social phenomena including: social class, smoking status, number of children people have, and urbanization.
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