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Obesity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy.
Childhood obesity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Childhood obesity is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child's health or wellbeing. As methods to determine body fat directly are difficult, the diagnosis of ...
Obesity-Overview
What is obesity?Being obese means having so much body fat that your health is in danger. Having too much body fat can lead to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure ...
Obesity
The foods we eat every day contribute to our well-being. Foods provide us with the nutrients we need for healthy bodies and the calories we need for energy. If we ...
Obesity — Global Issues
Obesity is a growing problem, rivaling world hunger in the number of people that suffer from it. Obese people were thought to be mainly the rich, but poor people can also suffer as ...
Welcome to Obesity in America
The Endocrine Society and The Hormone Foundation have developed a handbook with information about obesity’s causes, impact, and research into how to reduce it.
The Obesity Society
Information. In conjunction with the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute (NHLBI), The Obesity Society has produced fact sheets and statistics, as ...
WHO | Obesity
Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. A crude population measure of obesity is the body mass index (BMI), a ...
Obesity: eMedicine Endocrinology
Overview: Obesity is a substantial public-health crisis in the United States and in the rest of the developed world. The prevalence is increasing rapidly in numerous developing ...
Obesity and Overweight
Obesity is defined as too much body fat. If you have too much fat -- especially in your waist area -- you're at higher risk for health problems, including high blood pressure, high ...
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Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy. Body mass index (BMI), which compares weight and height, is used to define a person as overweight (pre-obese) when their BMI is between 25 kg/m2 and 30 kg/m2 and obese when it is greater than 30 kg/m2.

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