A large-scale new research offers additional evidence that being overweight causes melancholy and decreases wellbeing and suggests both social and physical variables may play a role in the impact. With one in four people considered to be obese in the UK, and increasing numbers of children afflicted, obesity is a worldwide health issue. While the risks of being fat on physical health is well recognized, researchers are now finding that being overweight may also have a major effect on mental health.
Source: University of Exeter