What defines obesity?
As mentioned above, our body has a highly efficient storage mechanism for excess energy intake from food – fat. If we persistently take in more energy from food than our body needs to run itself, then we store more and more fat and the battle of the bulge begins as the fat that forms around our organs and under our skin pushes outwards. The main concern is about fat levels around our internal organs since they have most immediate access to dumping their secretions and content into the blood stream. Obesity level is quantified by assessing the extent to which excess fat is being stored by our body. The general classification for levels of obesity is that produced by the World Health Organisation in 2000. It is based on a single measurement called the body mass index (BMI). This is your weight in kilograms divided by your height in metres squared (BMI = wt(kg)/ht(m) 2) (try www.bmi-calculator.net/). For the majority of individuals this is a reasonably accurate measure although it has som
As mentioned above, our body has a highly efficient storage mechanism for excess energy intake from food – fat. If we persistently take in more energy from food than our body needs to run itself, then we store more and more fat and the battle of the bulge begins as the fat that forms around our organs and under our skin pushes outwards. The main concern is about fat levels around our internal organs since they have most immediate access to dumping their secretions and content into the blood stream. Obesity level is quantified by assessing the extent to which excess fat is being stored by our body. The general classification for levels of obesity is that produced by the World Health Organisation in 2000. It is based on a single measurement called the body mass index (BMI). This is your weight in kilograms divided by your height in metres squared (BMI = wt(kg)/ht(m) 2) (try www.bmi-calculator.net/). For the majority of individuals this is a reasonably accurate measure although it has som
