Obesity

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Definition:
Obesity means having too much body fat. It is different from being overweight, which means weighing too much. The weight may come from muscle, bone, fat and/or body water. Both terms mean that a person's weight is greater than what's considered healthy for his or her height Chapter 11 pp.311

__Excessive Weight Gain__: A pattern in which children gain more weight in a year than is appropriate for their age and height. Chapter 9, pg.248

__Overweight__: A child whose BMI is at the 95th percentile. Chapter 9, pg. 249

Related Pages:
Related to: At-Risk-For-Overweight Cardiovascular Disease BMI-For-Age

Analogies:
McDonald's strikes back...Saying your kids are fat because of us, is like saying it's Hooters' fault your husband likes big boobs.

Obesity is to America, as taxes are to your income.

Mnemonics:
Obsessive Body Enlargement Suspected Involves Today's Young minds.

In the News:
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NaturalNews) So far, 2012 has offered vast federal nanny state expansion at the American dinner table. From officials inspecting home-prepared school lunches to the war on raw milk, our government is determined to tell America what we can and cannot eat. Now the //Centers for Disease Control and Prevention// (CDC) is openly demanding policy interventions to fight the "chronic disease," obesity. In the latest issue of the CDC's //Preventing Chronic Disease//, "An Evaluation Framework for Obesity Prevention Policy Interventions" calls for "interventions that extend beyond individual behaviors" to combat obesity. Some methods involve "the need for policy action to create healthier environments" and implementation that "may include activity at multiple levels of the executive branch of government." The article reinforces the idea that we, as mere individuals, cannot make healthy lifestyle changes, so we need the government to do it for us. []

Obesity and overweight have in the last decade become a global problem - according to the World Health Organization (WHO) back in 2005 approximately 1.6 billion adults over the of age 15+ were overweight, at least 400 million adults were obese and at least 20 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight. Experts believe if the current trends continue by 2015 approximately 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and more than 700 million will be obese. The scale of the obesity problem has a number of serious consequences for individuals and government health systems. []