How Obesity Affects Our Health

Abstract

Introduction: Obesity is a form in which there is fat collection of body overweight or adipose tissue. This accumulation happens in lean body mass of muscles and unlike connective tissue. Obesity is consummate constantly defined by the body mass index (BMI), a mathematically formula of weight-for-height index. BMI has a high interaction with adiposity and it interacts well with fat weight at the population rank. Obesity is defined as abnormal all excessive accumulation that may be harmful to health. Although, its etiology has been associated with and energy imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended, which is mainly as a result of a poor diet and insufficient physical exercise. Obesity is a worldwide epidemiologic syndrome depict by fat mass accumulation, mainly visceral fat. Obesity cause several diseases like genetic and metabolic issues, urea cycle problems, turner syndrome, Down syndrome, cystic fibrosis and Wilson's disease etc. Several factors are the cause of obesity like high sugar consumption but by taking some precautionary measures we can be secure from obesity.

A New Approach Using BMI and FMI as Predictors of Cardio-Vascular Risk Factors among Mexican Young Adults

“…Race-specific characteristics of body composition imply that the relation between obesity and CVRFs may also be different among races [32]. Epidemiological surveys and population health promotion usually take BMI as a useful indicator for measuring whole-body obesity, which is associated with chronic diseases such as dyslipidemia [45,46]. Hu et al [47] found that a higher BMI was directly associated with higher levels of TG in rural Chinese people aged 20-70 years.…”