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Obesity

Introduction

Obesity or overweight is the most talk about medical disease in the United States of America, and its graph is frequently increasing. As defined by the central of Health department of the USA that approx 34 percent of the entire population are suffering from this disease and it has been estimated that more that 34 percent people are overweight (Haddock, et al, 2011).

Further, the medical experts that in a year approx 112,000 people lost their life due to obesity have also analyzed it. This ratio of death is self-explanatory to individual in analyzing the negative aspect of this disease (Haddock, et al, 2011), (Oecd, 2012)

Discussion

Concept of Overweight and Obesity

In medical history, several definitions has been developed and explained to the world depending on type of tool used to measure the disease. However, the most common tool that is normally being used by doctors of all over the world is known as “Body Mass Index” (BMI) (Oecd, 2012)

Body mass index commonly used by doctors because it considered as most authentic source of providing actual figures of the disease, the process of calculating BMI generally includes height, weight and in certain cases fat of individual patient is included. However, because of its generality the panel of famous doctors and preachers of medical science has set certain standard points like if a BMI of an individual lay's between (<18.5) is considered to be an underweight person (Haddock, et al, 2011).

According to the doctors, if individual Body mass index lies between (18.5-24.9) considered a healthy individual. If the BMI lies within (25.0-29.9) than the individual is known as overweight person, in addition to the above, if the BMI of individual is (30.0-34.9) comes in the range of Obesity class 1. An individual comes in the range of (35.0-39.9) that is falls in class of Obesity II and lastly, if an individual is considered in Class III of obesity when its BMI comes in (>40.0) (Haddock, et al, 2011).

Figure 1: Body Mass Index formula

In addition to BMI, other common measurement tools used to measure the range of Obesity are Waist circumference, and body fat. The range of both these measurements tools are described in the table (Haddock, et al, 2011).

Figure 2: Measurement tools of Obesity m (Haddock, et al, 2011).

Why Obesity is Considered as a Problem

Not only in United States but also across the globe, being health is considered as a general thought, due to several reasons like some people prefer to be health as it is their family tradition, to impress someone or others (Oecd, 2012), (Wellman, et al, 2002)

However, medical supervisors and health officials have declared Obesity as a dangerous disease, because an individual suffering from Obesity generally suffers from several other diseases. Some of the common disease that occurred due to Obesity is (Oecd, 2012), (Wellman, et al, 2002)

Metabolic Syndrome

The most common disease that an Obesity patient might get into is “Metabolic Syndrome” which further increases the risk of occurring hearth stroke and diabetes. An individual requires the ...