Overweight and its Dangers

When a person consumes too much food, especially carbohydrate and fat, than he actually needs to maintain his body mechanism and perform his daily activities, the excess calories generated by this food is stored as fat. A person is considered overweight when this fat is about 10% in excess of the ideal fat for his height, and obese at over 20% excess. Obesity, the condition of being obese or seriously overweight, is common but serious nutritional disorder, affecting the poor and the rich alike.

8 – 20 % of body weight (men)
Healthy body fat:
13 – 25% of body weight (women)

Indicators of Obesity
(1) The BMI ratings (see above)
(2) Triceps Skinfold Thickness: The measurement of the fold of skin at the back of the upper arm (triceps) can be used to determine whether a particular person is too fat (obese), normal or too thin. The standard triceps skinfold thickness for normal weight adult is 12.5 mm for male and 16.5 mm for female. Females are naturally expected to be fatter than males. Higher figures are indicators of overweight or obesity.
(3) Waist Measurement: Waist measurement is a reliable indicator of how fat or thin a person is. A woman whose waist measures more than 35 inches and a man whose waist measures more than 40 inches are [/size] considered obese.


Fat Distribution
There is no human being without adipose tissues or fat cells. The role of fat in the body is very critical to life; that is, no fat, no life. Therefore, what we are talking about is not the total elimination of fat from the body but the avoidance of excessive, unhealthy fat.

Fats are not evenly distributed throughout the body. Some parts of the body are natural locations for fat. These parts include the abdomen, the trunk (chest region), buttocks, thighs, hips, waist, cheeks, breasts, calves, arms (especially the top parts) and the nape of the neck.

Overweight or obese people display two main patterns of fat distribution, with several shades in between. These two main patterns are: apple-shaped fat distribution and pear-shaped fat distribution.

In the apple-shaped fat distribution, fat distribution is characteristic of men and it is otherwise called android or trunchal obesity.

Medically, people with apple-shaped or trunchal obesity are more predisposed to heart or cardiovascular diseases, such as arteriosclerosis and congestive heart disease due to the excess fat surrounding the heart.

The distribution of fat in this pattern is mainly in the buttocks and thighs. Pear-shaped obesity is characteristic of women and is otherwise referred to as Gyroid obesity. Although pear-shaped obesity poses less cardiovascular risks, but it is commonly associated with low back pain and arthritis in women.

Dangers of Obesity

The dangers, (complications and implications) of obesity are medically, socially and economically significant. Hence the issue of obesity has for years attained global concern, making weight losing business a multibillion dollar business worldwide.

Some of the dangers of obesity include:

Earlier Death: The result of several independent researches worldwide, especially in the United States, show that obese people do not live as long as those who are not. About 300, 000 people die yearly due to obesity related causes, making it the second leading cause of death after smoking.


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