Obesity Subtleties
Obesity was overweight as a result of the accumulation of excess body fat. Everyone needs some body fat to store energy as heat insulation, shock absorbers and other functions.
The average woman has more body fat more than men. Comparison between the normal body fat weight is approximately 25-30% in women and 18-23% in men.
Women with more body fat than 30% and men with more body fat than 25% are considered obese. Someone who has a weight 20% higher than the midpoint of the range of normal weight is considered obese.
Attention not only to the amount of fat filled, but also to the location of body fat accumulation. The pattern of body fat distribution in men and women tend to differ.
Women tend to accumulate fat in the hips and buttocks, so that gives pear. While the men usually accumulate fat around the abdomen, thus providing a picture like apples. But it is not something absolute, sometimes in some men looked like a pear and some women look like apples, especially after menopause.
Someone who accumulated a lot of fat in the abdomen may be more susceptible to various health problems associated with obesity. They have a higher risk. Pear picture better than the picture of an apple.
To distinguish between these two images, has found a way to determine whether a person is shaped like an apple or pear, which is by calculating the ratio of waist to hip. The waist is measured at the narrowest point, while the hip was measured at the widest point; and waist size divided by hip size.
A woman with a waist size of 87.5 cm and 115 cm hip size, has a waist-hip ratio of 0.76. Women with a ratio of waist: hip more than 0.8 or men with a ratio of waist: hip more than 1, say an apple-shaped.
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