Take-home points
We've covered lots of different topics in this chapter, so let's just take a moment to recap some take home points here. We began this lecture by talking about the trends in obesity from 1985 to 2010, and we saw that obesity has increased dramatically in the past 25 years, and we classify this as an obesity epidemic. We also talked about overweight and obesity and how both of these conditions are associated with many economic, social, and individual costs. We noted that this is a problem for children as well as adults. And we talked about how to tackle this complicated challenge, but we also talked about how physical activity and energy intake are two very important lifestyle factors that we do have some control over—a lot of control over—to help with the overweight and obesity problem. So although these aren't the only two factors that are associated with someone becoming overweight or obese, they certainly can play a big role in trying to reverse the epidemic.