Obesity has reached epidemic proportions and has become one of the major health
problems in developed countries. Current theories consider obesity a result of overeating
and sedentary life style and most efforts to treat or prevent weight gain concentrate on
exercise and food intake. This approach does not improve the situation as may be seen from
the steep increase in the prevalence of obesity. This encouraged us to reanalyse existing
information and look for biochemical basis of obesity. Our approach was to ignore current …