Are you part of the obese?

Obese will cause major physical threats ie. heart disease, cancer (breast, colorectal, endometrial, and kidney), diabetes, high blood cholesterol, stroke, and hypertension. There are a lot of papers saying that too many kids are in the obese catergory due to the city lifestyle and various fast food and junk food.

Let us rethink what we eat everyday and do a verification on whether we are part of obese now to save our lives....

How to determine are you part of obese?

BMI = kilograms / meters2
BMI Classification
<> 40.0 : class III obesity

Besides of BMI, we should always know what is the boday fat contains in our body in order for us to plan for our excerciese.

Body fat percentage can be estimated from BMI by the following formula:
Bodyfat% = (1.2 * BMI) + (0.23 * age) − 5.4 − (10.8 * gender)
where gender is 0 if female and 1 if male .

Ideal body fat for men are 18% whilst women are 23%. Experts have concluded that an excess is not particularly very bad to health till it reach 35% for men and 40% for women.

Percent body fat is the percentage of fat in our body. Thus someone who weighs 100 pounds and is 20% fat has 20 pounds of fatty tissue and 80 pounds of other, which is so called lean tissue.

Take care of our health by starting awaring where are we now!