What are obesity and overweight?

Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health. It is a chronic, lifelong, genetically related, life-threatening disease of excessive fat storage. Obesity results when the size or number of fat cells in a person’s body increases

Although “overweight” technically refers to an excess of body weight and “obesity” to an excess of fat, these two words can be defined operationally in terms of body mass index. The body mass index (BMI) is the most practical way to evaluate the degree of obesity

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