Obesity is continue to increase its spell gradually, all over the world, and therefore can be considered as a rapidly growing health concern of the era. Experts are putting their hard efforts to develop some efficient measures in order to combat the health condition that is further believed to have a major role to trigger an array of diseases including diabetes and several cardiovascular diseases.

Recently, a team of scientists has suggested increasing the availability of nagging plates, especially for obese or overweighed families. In addition, they claimed that slow eaters are less likely to eat more therefore anticipated that the nagging plates will inspire the user to eat slowly.

While briefing about the concept, Per Sodersen, who had assisted throughout the device development procedure explained that directing an obese person for dieting is not an efficient measure to address the issue and added that dieting just slows the metabolism.

In addition, the expert has also raised major concerns over the child obesity and blamed increased trend of junk food for stimulating the problem. Simultaneously, Per Sodersen has also warned against its consequences and impact on their future health. To back the statement, the expert has referred to a report compiled by the World Health Organization marking excessive body weight as a major reason for causing more than a third of coronary heart disease as well as stroke cases.

Meanwhile, a recent report has indicated a significant soar, more than 50%, during the past three years and suggested increased obesity as a possible reason to change the figures. "So we have in place strategies to encourage people to live more actively, to eat more healthily and these are the kind of things we're focusing on to reduce the levels of obesity in future years", added the Health Secretary, Nicola Sturgeon, while commenting on the report.