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obesity
medical disorder
Also known as: corpulence, fatness
obesity
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- Also called:
- corpulence or fatness
- Related Topics:
- nutritional disease
- exercise
- pickwickian syndrome
- childhood obesity
- central obesity
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Apr. 7, 2024, 5:23 AM ET (News-Medical)
Obesity and high-fat diets linked to accelerated aging in brain blood vessels
Apr. 2, 2024, 1:17 PM ET (Medical Xpress)
Gut bacteria that strongly influence obesity are different in men and women, study finds
Mar. 21, 2024, 8:08 AM ET (MSN)
Overweight and obesity linked to rising death rates from bowel cancer among young adults
Mar. 19, 2024, 11:45 AM ET (Medical Xpress)
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Mar. 13, 2024, 5:58 AM ET (News-Medical)
Obesity in early childhood linked to higher rates of musculoskeletal consultations
obesity, excessive accumulation of body fat, usually caused by the consumption of more calories than the body can use. The excess calories are then stored as fat, or adipose tissue. Overweight, if moderate, is not necessarily obesity, particularly in muscular or large-boned individuals. Obesity was traditionally defined as an increase in body weight that was greater than 20 percent of an individual’s ideal body weight—the weight associated with the lowest risk of death, as determined by certain factors, such as age, height, and gender. Based on these factors, overweight could then be defined as a 15–20 percent increase over ideal ...(100 of 2091 words)