| Thanks to the sedentary lifestyle and increased trend | | | | extent that it may have an adverse effect on your |
| of eating high calorie junk foods, more people are | | | | health. If not treated in time, obesity could lead to |
| overweight and obese today. For a layman, when they | | | | reduced life expectancy and/or increased health |
| talk about being overweight or obese, they mean | | | | problems. An obese person may also suffer from |
| someone has more body fat than is healthy. While | | | | various types of emotional and physical problems. |
| some amount of fat is essential for your health, | | | | Emotional problems include feelings of inferiority, low |
| excess fat can have serious adverse effects. It can | | | | self-esteem and bullying from classmates in children. |
| affect your stamina, making it difficult for you to run or | | | | Some of the leading physical problems associated with |
| walk. Your personality also gets affected as you look | | | | obesity include high blood pressure, heart disease, |
| bigger than others. In addition, excess fat in your body | | | | various types of cancers and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus |
| also makes you prone to several life-threatening | | | | (T2DM) which is where the body no longer responds |
| conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high | | | | to insulin and so cannot control its blood sugar levels |
| cholesterol, arthritis or sleep apnea. | | | | In terms of BMI, obesity is defined as a condition, when |
| Medical experts are spending considerable amount of | | | | you have a BMI of above 30. People with a BMI of |
| time and energy on researching the subject of | | | | more than 40 are known as morbidly obese. Experts |
| overweight and obesity. Read on to find out how you | | | | are worried about the rising number of obese people |
| can differentiate between being over-weight and | | | | across the world. This changing trend calls for a |
| obese and which condition is more severe than the | | | | serious change in diet and lifestyle to help reduce |
| other. | | | | obesity figures. |
| Overweight | | | | Which Is More Severe - Overweight or Obesity? |
| In general, being overweight means having more body | | | | Both conditions are bad for health. Your body only |
| fat than is optimally healthy. Imprecisely, people use the | | | | requires a minimum amount of fat for the proper |
| word overweight to mean that someone is heavy. | | | | functioning of the hormonal, reproductive and immune |
| The term designates a state between normal weight | | | | systems; as thermal insulation; and as energy for |
| and obesity. Being overweight has become a common | | | | future use. Excessive body fat can impair movement |
| condition, especially in the developed countries; this is | | | | and flexibility, as well as alter the appearance of your |
| because food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are | | | | body. As an obese person has a greater amount of |
| sedentary. | | | | body fat than an overweight person, an obese person |
| Experts now define the term over-weight in terms of | | | | has greater chances of developing serious health |
| body mass index (BMI). Your BMI is got by dividing | | | | conditions. However, as an overweight person has a |
| your weight in kilograms (kg) by your height in meters | | | | high probability of growing into an obese person, |
| (m) squared. People with a BMI of 25-30 are referred | | | | scientists do not take the condition of being overweight |
| to as overweight. | | | | lightly. While suggesting serious lifestyle changes for |
| Obesity | | | | helping obese persons to slim down, experts warn |
| Obesity refers to a serious medical condition in which | | | | overweight people to monitor their weight closely and |
| excess body fat is deposited in your body to the | | | | take serious action so that they do not grow obese. |