Relation of Obesity to Longevity

Abstract

THIS symposium, devoted to the subject of obesity, is a good indication of the growing awareness of the medical and public-health professions of the importance of obesity in the national health picture. Over the years vast changes have taken place in the daily life of people, and the eating habits that were formerly suitable for farmers, factory workers and housewives who had to do a great deal of manual labor are no longer suitable in the highly mechanized America of 1952. The pleasures of eating, however, are just as real today as they ever were, and there is no lack . . .