As per the World Health Organization (WHO), updated last January 2015, obesity in the world has more than doubled since 1980. Last year, over 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight, with 600 million obese among them.

The Organization added that last year, 39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight and 13% were obese. Besides this, it also mentioned that by the year 2013, 42 million children below 5 were overweight or obese. As a result of this, the annual death rates have been relatively growing and alarming.

In an overweight or obese person, heart gets affected due to which cardiovascular disease, primarily heart disease and stroke, strikes in, leading to death.

Miranda Hitti said in WebMD News Archive, “Excess fat-especially around the waist -could prompt inflammation and raise the risk of heart disease inflammation and raise the risk of heart disease”.

Fat works as an extra organ that causes heart disease in people. In the US, it is a major killer for both men and women.

Tongjian You, PhD released a statement saying that obesity affects about one-third of adults in the US and is closely associated with heart disease.

Obese people must decrease calories and fat intake to stay healthy, and should set up realistic plans and eating disciplinary actions. Lifestyle changes can prove quite helpful in cutting down the levels of calories and sugars, which would further decrease the fat in the heart and waist.

Obesity in the United States has been increasingly cited as a major health issue in recent decades. While many industrialized countries have experienced similar increases, obesity rates in the United States are among the highest in the world.