Obesity and Metabolism Disorders

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about 110 lbs, its grossly underweight for a normal girl, but for runway it is the expected weight

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Lap band surgery should only be considered after failed attemps of dieting and excercise. To be a good candidate for this type of surgery a male needs to be 100 pound overweight and a woman 80 pounds.

Carbohydrates, more specifically: glucose

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Health promoters promote anything that leads to greater health. Examples would be healthy lifestyles, preventive medicine (such as immunizations), and regular doctor visits.

If you take levothyroxine you are taking thyroid hormone. The primary reason for taking thyroid hormone is to supplement or replace that which your own thyroid makes. Low thyroid hormone is known as hypothyroidism.

Some physicians also prescribe levothyroxine if you have antithyroid antibodies. This condition is known as Hashitmoto's thyroiditis. The intent is to suppress your own body's production of thyroid hormone because this minimizes the attack of the immune system against the thyroid.

cheaper foods tend to be higher in calories and lower in other nutrients. The result is that eating poor quality foods tends to encourage people to eat more in the body's natural effort to get those nutrients. Yes, at least somewhat. Especially in developed nations, more nutritious food is more expensive. Cheap foods are also very dense in calories. Poor people are also frequently engaged in fairly sedentary tasks for long hours, and can't afford the luxury of a gym membership or time to exercise. Additionally, people in poverty tend to be less educated and knowledgable about proper nutrition.

Answer 66% of the adults and 16% of the children in the US are overweight, while the poverty level in the US is below 13% (in 2004) of the population.

Childhood obesity is hard to determine, as determining whether they have excess body fat is difficult. It is typically based on BMI (Body-Mass Index).

A child that is obese may eat too much unhealthy food, such as fat food, is at risk for becoming obese. Children with sedentary lifestyles, especially, run the risk of obesity as they are inactive.

Obesity is typically an interplay between genetics and lifestyle, so it isn't easy to find a one true way to identify obesity-- that is, unless the child is already obviously overweight.

No. According to http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/, you are underweight. You are 12; STOP WORRYING ABOUT YOUR WEIGHT AND FOCUS ON YOUR FRIENDS AND YOUR HAPPINESS! xoxo Julia but i dont want to be a chubby person i want to be a skinny thin person

The more obese you are the harder the heart has to beat to get blood through the body. If the heart get too stressed out it could stop.

If you mean obese, you can be obese when you are extremely over weight.

Figures from the 2004-2005 Australian National Health Survey indicated that 47% of Australians over the age of 15 were overweight, but only one-third of them were obese - which is roughly 18%. This equates to around 2.5 million.

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Lap band Surgery will produce tangible results which can be notices within months of having the procedure done. Most people are very impressed with the results.

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behavioral factor

cause there trying to not be fat by not eatin cake

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If you have a sore throat, but no cold symptoms and you feel tired it could just be a cold. You may not have mono again but it is possible to get it twice.

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Obesity means having too much body fat. It is not the same as being overweight, which means weighing too much. A person may be overweight from extra muscle, bone, or water, as well as from having too much fat.

You might be thinking of 1995's Heavy Weights.