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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Obesity: Opinion vs. Reality


Obesity is defined varies depending on the reference, but in general, obesity is a chronic condition is determined by the amount of excess body fat. A number of specific body fat is necessary for storing energy, heat insulation, absorption pressure, and other functions. Normal amount of body fat (expressed as a percentage of body fat) is between 25% -30% in women and 18% -23% in men. Women with more body fat than 30% body fat and men with more than 25% are considered obese.
Calculation of body mass index  has also been used in the definition of obesity. Body mass index equal to a person's weight in kilograms (kg) divided by their height in meters (m) squared. Since the describes body weight relative to height, strongly correlated with total body fat content in adults. "Obesity" is defined as a of 30 upwards.Is it true that the more obese a person will be more protected from the disease?
That's the opinion of the past, even some who lay still believe.
Obesity is a dire health dilemma directly harmful to one's health. In the United States, approximately 300,000 deaths per year are directly related to obesity, and more than 80% of these deaths are in patients with (body mass index, which will be discussed later in this article) over 30. In Indonesia? Although no accurate data, but in some hospitals reported more or less the same thing.
For patients with a over 40, life expectancy is reduced significantly (as much as 20 years for men and 5 years for women). Obesity also increases the risk of some chronic diseases.High blood pressure (hypertension) is a disease resulting from obesity?
Before answering, we used a paradigm straighten us, that hypertension is not a disease. Many people who thought that hypertension is a disease. Try Ask your doctor, then they will answer that hypertension is not a disease! But a collection of symptoms that refer to a disease. Then hypertension may be more severe than what you imagine, why? Because a person with hypertension is the cause of many diseases!
Hypertension is a common thing we find on the adults who are obese. A Norwegian study showed that weight gain tends to increase blood pressure in women more significantly than men. The risk of high blood pressure is also greater in obese people are classified as central obesity (fat accumulated in the abdomen) compared with the distribution of fat in the hips and thighs.

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