Overweight World – Obesity Facts and Statistics
Obesity Obesity is a condition that is associated with having an excess of body fat. Obesity is classified as having a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or greater. Three decades ago, the obesity rate for adults was 15%. Today, the rate has more than doubled to 35%. At the same time, calories consumed by…
How do we calculate our calorie requirements?
We said that energy expenditure has a high inter individual variability, so how can we measure how many calories one person spends? Well, we do have a way to do it with high precision, but unfortunately it is tremendously impractical and also quite expensive: you have to put a person into an insulated chamber so…