Non-medical Consequences

In addition to the increase in illness and mortality, there are other implications for the current worldwide trend towards obesity. These include:
Increased pressure on airline revenues (or increased fares) due to the pressure to achieve an increase in the width of the seats in commercial aircraft and due to the increased cost of fuel: in 2000, additional weight of obese passengers is costing airlines and consumers U.S. $ 275,000,000.

An increase in litigation by obese persons suing restaurants (causing obesity) and airlines (about the width of the seats). Decree on the Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption in 2005 was motivated by a need to reduce litigation from obesity activists.
A considerable social and economic cost attributable to obesity, with medical costs attributable to obesity to rise to 78.5 billion dollars or 9.1% of all medical spending in the United States for 1988.
A decrease in worker productivity, measured by the use of disability leave and absenteeism at work.

A study examining the employees of Duke University, found that those with a BMI greater than 40 sheets of claims filed, two times more than workers whose BMI was between 18.5 and 24.9 and lost work days over 12 times more than other workers. The most common injury was due to falls and lifting floors, affecting the lower limbs, hands, wrists and back.

This was particularly the case in the visual arts such as paintings of Rubens (1577-1640), whose regular representation of women gave us the coordinates describing Rubenesca. Obesity can also be seen as a symbol within a system of prestige.

"The type of food, amount and manner in which it is served are among the important criteria of social class. In most tribal societies, including those with a highly stratified social system, the whole world-and royalty commoners, ate the same kind of food and if there was a famine throughout the world was hungry. With the ever increasing variety of items, food has become not only a matter of social status, but also a mark of personality and individual taste.