As technology grows, so does the percent of obese population. For hundreds of years, lack of food had been the demise of millions, now obesity is considered a public health crisis, and only for the past couple of decades. Only after technological advances in the 18th century did people start to have a more readily available source of sustenance. At the time, these advances helped people to live longer, and to have better nutrition. Unfortunately, over time this was not found to be the case. Big advances to agricultural technology like the Reaper, pesticides, and even larger corporations like Monsanto have been proven to produce more food than needed, and on top of this, most of the food produced by these corporations get processed into something unhealthy via large industrial machines. "The initial effect of these advances in improved public health and amount, quality, and variety of food was increased longevity and body size. These early favorable outcomes of technological advances notwithstanding, their incremental effect since the Second World War has been an overabundance of easily accessible food, coupled with reduced physical activity, that accounts for the recent increased prevalence of obesity,"(Eknoyan n.Pg.) says Garabed Eknoyan of Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He is an editor for the Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, and published an article on the…