Weight Loss Treatment

Obesity is caused by the excessive accumulation of body fat.
Everyone needs some fat to store energy as heat insulation, shock absorbers and other features.
On average women have more body fat than men. Comparison of normal body weight, fat is about 25-30% in women and 18-23% for men.
Women have more body fat of 30% and men with more body fat than 25% of obesity.
Someone has a weight of 20% above the average range of normal weight is considered obese.
Obesity is divided into 3 groups: mild obesity: 20-40% classified overweight
Obesity is as follows: 41-100% overweight
# Weight Obesity: Obesity> 100%.
Severe obesity has been found up to 5% of people who are fat.
Attention not only on the amount of fat, but also the location of fat accumulation. The pattern of distribution of adipose tissue in men and women tend to differ.
Women tend to accumulate fat around the hips and buttocks, which in the bulb. While men tend to accumulate fat in the belly, so that an image like apples.
But this is not an absolute, sometimes men like a pear, and some women are like apples, especially after menopause.

Someone is likely to favor a large amount of accumulated fat in the abdominal cavity more susceptible to various health problems associated with obesity. They have a higher risk. Best picture of pear that the image of an apple.

To distinguish between these two images, has found a way to determine if a person like an apple or a pear, which is obtained by calculating the ratio of waist to hip is so.
The size is measured at the narrowest point, while the hip was measured at the widest point, and waist circumference divided by hip circumference.
A woman with a waist circumference of 87.5 cm and 115 cm hips, waist-hip ratio of 0.76.
Women with a ratio of waist-hip ratio greater than 0.8 or men with a ratio of waist-hip ratio above 1, say, an apple.