What is obesity? And, what is overweight? Essay - 1

Actually, the obesity is a health problem that affects millions of people around the world, even causing death. But, sometimes people confuse obesity with overweight, and these are two differents definitions, and obviously differents problems. On the one hand, we have the overweight that is indicated for the body mass index (BMI) which is a formula of the weight and the height. The normal BMI is between 8 and 25, when is higher than 25 the person is overweight, and in the other hand we have obesity that is even worst, in the same way is indicated by the BMI when this is higher than 30. In this way, we can see the different between these two definitions, and the indicator used for identifying them.

There are a lot of factors that can cause being overweight and the obesity, although it is common that people think that it is caused just by bad eating habits, that is just one of the causes, but its not the only one. Is important to clarify that the fat accumulated in the body when someone eats more calories than they need, for examples if someone eats 3500 calories per day and only uses 3000, the other 500 calories will be accumulated in the body as fat. Additionally, sedentary life is another cause, because the exercise helps to burn calories and be more healthy, and finally the metabolism could be another cause, but this one is the more complicated one, because its requires medication and medical control.

In the world, these two problems are very common, however in some countries the index is higher than others. For example, in Japan the government have good policies to promote the good eating habits, like demand to companies to advise their employees that are overweight about health, nutrition and good eating habits, and additionally companies must have to have just a 10% of overweight employees. However, this case is an exception, the rule is that in general countries don't have good policies to help people to be healthy.

Furthermore, in Costa Rica overweight and obesity are serious problems, and recently some studies about it show that Costa Rica has very high index in child obesity, so this problem should push the authorities to do something about this. In other way, if the costa rican government doesn't do anything, this could be even a public health problem, so we hope that soon other investigations in the country start, to understand all the situation.

Finally, we can see that obesity and the overweight are problems that affect all the world, and every year is worst, and is important to considerate all the illnesses that are consequences of obesity. Right now, Costa Rica is facing a problem that can be controlled but only if the government and the people do something to fix this.

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