Can you smell obesity?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/27/health/time-obesity/index.html?hpt=hp_t5
This is also related to the idea of the microbiome that I have talked about before. I really think our medicine is going to start to transform much like the IT industry has and functional immortality is just a few decades away…
There is the option of decreasing one’s caloric intake and increasing one’s expenditure of energy. For most people these options seem to be insupportable.