Nutrition and Obesity

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This paper discusses how the global epidemic of obesity is not only restricted to developed urbanized countries. As the prevailing culture and the benefits of technology advocate a less physically active and unhealthy but convenient eating habits, obesity will continue to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The paper further discusses how increasing genetic factors as well as environmental factors continue to push the age at which obesity is first detected back further than it was over twenty years ago.

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"Obesity is fast becoming an epidemic worldwide. It has been identified as a disease related to a chosen lifestyle as well as being associated with a higher risk of developing coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis, Type 2 diabetes and hyperlipidemia. All these diseases are associated with the risk of development of metabolic syndrome. Saw and Rajan (1997) found a worldwide prevalence rate ranging between 7% in France to 32.8% in Brazil. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2003) defines and screens obesity in terms of body mass index (BMI), which is a ratio derived from the person's weight in kilograms divided by the square of the person's height in meters. A BMI of 30 kg/m2 or more is considered obese. Independent of obesity is central adiposity, measured as waist circumference. "

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