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Obesity?
Obesity is bodyweight in excess to biological needs; excessive fatness. Obesity does not imply a couple pounds over the average; it refers to a large amount of body fat making the individual very overweight. According to WHO (world health organization), obesity is an epidemic concerning over 300 million people around the world with the western nations topping the list. As the years go by, the larger the numbers of obesity and the younger the victims become. Obesity has brought about hundreds of millions of deaths in America and is one of the leading causes to many chronic diseases, and could itself be considered a long-term disease.

How do you know if you're obese?
Obesity today is calculated using the BMI system. The Body Mass Index system provides the individual with certain classifications of body weight: underweight, normal weight (grade 0), overweight (grade 1), slightly obese (grade 2), and severely obese (grade 3).
The BMI classification is attained by......

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