Obesity is a big problem facing the United States today that some has considered it an epidemic. Approximately, over 58 million Americans today are said to be suffering from obesity – 26 million of these are men, and 32 million of these are women.
Obesity is defined as having an excessive amount of body fat. So a person who is overweight is not necessarily obese if that person's body mass comes not only from fat, but muscles or bone mass.
Some medical experts have assessed that one way to find out if a person is obese is to determine if that person contains more than a certain percentage of body fat. Men who exceed 25 percent body fat are considered to fall into this category. While in women, those who possess body fat that exceeds 30
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