Everything you need to know about obesity and how to tackle it

BMI: What is it?

The acronym stands for ‘Body Mass Index’. It is one of the two yardsticks generally used together to calculate the healthy weight of an average person taking the person’s height as the base. It is ideal to also differentiate an overweight person from an obese one.

Most adults should have the desirable BMI between 20 and 24. A patient is deemed overweight if the BMI is between 25 and 29.9. The BMI of an obese person will be 30 and above.

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Factors Determining Weight

A person may weigh more or less depending on the bones besides the amount of fats or muscles that are in the body. There are several other factors besides height that influence weight. Moreover, a person may have quite some weight, but that weight may not be due to fat. Let us take the instance cof a couch potato and a bodybuilder. The former may be leading a sedentary lifestyle, but his BMI may within the desirable range, and yet she/he may have superfluous fat tissue. On the other hand the bodybuilder will have heavy weight (BMI) which may not be an indicator of fat. The high BMI is due to the high percentage of muscle tissue in his body.

It is to be noted that the muscle tissue weighs more than fat. Excess muscles compared to fats may increase the weight of the body as muscles tissues weigh more than fats. But that person may not suffer from health complexities as she/he would have had there been an excess accumulation of fats: hence the need for excess muscles but limited fats

How to Tackle Obesity ?
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How to know the Ideal Body Weight?
Obesity & Body weight: Where does the burnt energy go to?
Obesity: How is it caused?
Obesity: What are adipose tissues?
Weight Loss Diet Plan
Obesity Weight Loss Chart
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