Obesity: A choice?
Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated. People
are considered obese when their body mass index (BMI) is very high. Obesity is
most commonly caused by a combination of excessive food energy intake, lack of
physical activity, and genetic susceptibility.
The body mass index is a measure for human body shape based on an
individual´s mass and height.
BMI is used to calculate how fat are the people and how many weight do they
have to lost. The body mass index indicates the excessive mass through your
height and weight. The people developed more techniques to eat healthfully
and loss or gain weight. There are specialists in these techniques and they based
trough your routine or your daily exercise. The BMI is the most basically
technique that you have, it can expressed how fat are you and it can prevent so
many diseases.
A healthy diet, with all the proteins, carbs and fats you need, along with exercise
can prevent obesity and diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart strokes and
diabetes.
Essay by Mónica Terrazas