Weight affects so much more though. It's not just sleep apnea, but heart disease and diabetes as well. Any type of surgery risk is greatly increased by obesity.

Weight affects so much more though. It's not just sleep apnea, but heart disease and diabetes as well. Any type of surgery risk is greatly increased by obesity. Look at history. Even for people working desk jobs, Americans were much less obese than they are today. It's a systemic problem. Go into any gas station and try to grab a snack without sugar. It's difficult to impossible. We have more sugar and starch in our food today. I agree it's not necessarily a personal problem. It's a problem with the entire food industry and access to cheap sugar. It's starting to affect people in other western countries too and we are missing a lot of education about the dangers of starch and sugar.