The Obesity category is a sub-category of the Weight Gain category.

Obesity - A General Overview

What is Obesity?

Obesity is a condition whereby excess body fat accumulated on a person which may cause a shortened life span or further medical complications. The standard measurement tool for obesity is the Body Mass Index (weight in kilograms times square of the person’s height). Someone is considered to be obese when the Body Mass Index reaches 30 kilograms to every meter squared or above.

What is Morbid Obesity?

Morbid obesity is a classification of obesity, where the person’s Body Mass Index reaches 40 kilograms to every meter squared or above and is named as such because it places the sufferer at greater risk of death than the normal obesity category.

What is Childhood Obesity?

Childhood obesity is a classification of obesity for children. As Body Mass Indexes change dependent on age and sex, the Center for Disease Prevention define childhood obesity and being in the 95th percentile of weight distributions for age and gender.

Prevalence of Obesity in the United States of America.

Prevalence of obesity in the United States is often considered a great health concern and an indicator of future results for other developing nations, with rates that have sky-rocketed over the past forty years. In 1963, 13% of Americans were considered obese. In 2010, 35.7% of adults and 17% of American children are considered obese. And the trend has not slowed in any way.

Symptoms Caused by Obesity

Obesity is widely considered the leading preventable causes of death, as an average affects life expectancy by 6 to 7 years, and climbs the higher the person’s Body Mass Index.

Treatment

While gastric surgeries and other such surgical procedures have been in vogue lately, the scientifically accepted viewpoint to decrease excess body fat contains a combination of diet, exercise and the appropriate supplementation, which can either be found in commercially available nutritional supplements or can be formed through the use of home remedies.

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