Obesity and Overweight

Question 1

What is obesity and overweight?

Answer 1

Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. Differences in distribution of fat, amount of excess fat stored and associated health consequences between individuals

Question 2

What is a BMI?

Answer 2

How much extra weight you have is the amount of excess fat stored
BMI = weight/height ^2
Best correlates with body fat and is fairly simple to work out
Increasing BMI with increasing body fat is about 0.8, 8/10 people will show that if you increase BMI you increase body fat
Higher BMI more associated with adverse health consequences
Healthy BMI is 18.5-25

Question 3

Consequences of obesity

Answer 3

Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders (especially osteoarthritis), some cancers (endometrial, breast, ovarian, prostate, liver, gall bladder, kidney and colon)

Question 4

How do people gain weight?

Answer 4

People gain weight by consuming more energy in than they are giving out, energy imbalance, consuming too much food, too big portions, more energy dense food