Obesity is one of the major health concerns in the United States. Obesity in turn leads to many other chronic health problems like diabetes, cardiovascular disease and many more. This review was done on the social and physical factors that contribute to the obesity epidemic. Social factors that were included in this review were financial stress, post traumatic stress, sleep, marriage and health literacy. Physical factors that were reviewed here were physical activity, natural environment, food environment, worksite settings, pregnancy and genetics. The data was collected from government organizations like National Institute of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Also, peer reviewed articles were selected based on the relevance to this review from the last five years (2011 to 2015). The result of this review was that these social and physical factors were significantly contributing to the major health problem, obesity. Overall, there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of obesity among adults in United States and this review sheds some light on the factors responsible for it.
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