Over one-half of all Americans are overweight or obese. If you are overweight or obese, carrying this extra weight puts you at risk for developing many diseases. Women generally have more subcutaneous fat than men, but appear to suffer a greater cardiovascular risk from a given degree of fat than women.
Obesity is the net result of an excess of energy consumption over expenditure. Factors that must be considered as contributing to causation are: heredity, and altered metabolism of adipose tissue, the list goes on and on. Overeating is clearly a prominent contributor to obesity. Feeding behavior occurs in response to hunger and to appetite induced by the presence of food.
More children today are overweight or obese than ever before. "Overweight" meaning that the individual weighs more than is recommended for a given height. "Obesity" is an excess of body fat. In children obesity has been variously defined as 20% over the recommended weight for height, 85th percentile for......
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