Tan Ko-lee points out that most adults in their twenties or thirties have experienced the psychological pressures or threats to health of being obese: trouble making friends with the opposite sex, or problems of high blood pressure and so on.
譚克麗進一步分析，廿、卅歲以上的肥胖者，往往已親身體驗到肥胖所造成的心理壓迫，或對健康的威脅。