Prevalence, Causes, Consequences, Preventative Measures of Obesity and State of Weight Problems in Japan

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The prevalence of obesity raises problems in health-related quality of life, health care, labor market, medical spending and other areas. Grasping the seriousness of obesity through various statistical data, governmental reports, and literatures in medical sciences, sociology, psychology and economics in particular, we examined and analyzed the influences that obesity has brought on our physical and mental health, medicine and medical spending, and work and employment. Obesity rate in Japan at present is significantly lower than those of other developed countries. However, realizing obesity as a world-wide socio-economic inevitability more than a personal problem, we argue for the necessity of making public policies so that we are able to sustain healthy life and society in the future.