> Obesity is most prevalent in countries without overdeveloped food supply chains and food marketing apparatus. My eyes are telling me a different story.) But

> Obesity is most prevalent in countries without overdeveloped food supply chains and food marketing apparatus. My eyes are telling me a different story.) But I live in Asia most of the time. huffingtonpost? economist? research?) Give me a link to something on coursera or edX at least.) Most of diseases are imbalances in homeostasis. The causes of such imbalances could be genetic or acquired. Most of the later ones could be called habits or conditioning, and could be treated by appropriate CBTs - by corresponding changes of behavior and habits to return back to the balance. This is the basis of ancient medical sciences (at least in India), which served humanity very well, except, of course, the cases of bacteria and virus caused diseases, which is quite different kind of an imbalance due to activities of an external parasite. There is a good starting point - https://www.coursera.org/learn/childnutrition https://www.coursera.org/learn/childnutrition Keep in mind that it is slightly biased by being "American middle class".)