Health and Obesity

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Abstract
IN his delightful monograph on obesity, Leonard Williams1 has occasion to discuss its classification, as follows:The unlovely condition called corpulence or obesity has been divided into three stages known respectively as the enviable, the comical, and the pitiful. Such classification is based upon a false estimate of values, for no case of obesity is enviable. Most of them are in a sense comical, and all are pitiable.It is not difficult to demonstrate that obesity is both disadvantageous and dangerous. A mere list of its hazards, disabilities and discomforts is formidable. Obesity predisposes to diabetes, increases che tendency to . . .
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