A large (and growing) proportion the population of the western world are today fighting a personal war against obesity as the penalty for enjoying all the benefits of living in today's industrialised world. This is an issue that society as a whole has only latterly got to grips with as the magnitude of the cost to the health and economic welfare of people at large, has become realised The need for the availability of good weight loss systems to help people combat this problem has therefore recently become more of a significant issue A lot of people do not realise that being overweight is very much an environmental issue. Today we are all increasingly aware of environmental issues and more conscious of the health implications of being fat, we don't realise that these subjects are closely interrelated. The plague of obesity in the western world is largely a function of the social environment in which we live nowadays because present day living conditions are substantially at odds with the environment that human beings evolved to survive in, over many millennia. This disparity between the conditions in which we are adapted to thrive naturally and the pampered and over provided lives most of us live today, is the single most significant reason that so many people suffer from weight related health issues. Anyone with a weight problem can benefit from understanding exactly how these factors impact weight loss efforts, in order to follow a more healthy course.