Eating , Diet and Obesity ! are these true !

I am a big fan of Freakanomics , I believe its one of the better books written on economics , which was written for a normal human being.

There is a new podcast from their Team and it talks about the Obesity and over-eating , the following were the quick pointers.

1 ) If we see any 16th or 17th century paintings, Fat was beauty , you can hardly find anyone thin.

2 ) Till 20th century in most countries (even now ) , people are not well fed

3 ) The obesity industry is one of the biggest fads of this century.

4 ) The amount of money in Diet companies, Diet Doctors is worth billions of $$.

5 ) This one was interesting , till now all the research have never proved that overweight causes Diabetes , Heart Disease.

6 ) In 2004 CDC (Center for disease control ) release a study which said around 400 thousand people are dying every year because of overweight.

7 ) After analyzing the results , and checked by experts it was finalized that it was around 20 K people (same number of people who die because of underweight ! )

8 ) Till now the amount of money that is spent on educating people has just been water on the drain !!

9 ) is it true that lean people get more , and a little chubby people get it raw ?

So to lose weight or not , is the question !!

For more information , try reading this book , Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America’s Obesity Epidemic,